[tied] Re: Slavic endings

From: tgpedersen
Message: 46074
Date: 2006-09-14

> So here's my chronology:
>
> (1) GL1 -- voiced aspirated stops become voiced fricatives (GLc),
> voiceless stops become voiceless fricatives (GLa); the relative ordering
> of the two components of GL1 seems to be undecidable.
>
> (2) VL
>
> (3) Prokosch's Law (PL): voiced non-sibilant fricatives become voiced
> stops before *n in medial clusters.
>
> (4) Voiced labiovelar simplification: -gWn- > -wn-.
>
> (5) Kluge's Law (KL): *n is assimilated to a preceding voiced
> stop (but only after a short nucleus).
>
> (6) GL2 -- voiced stops become devoiced.



Where would you place the accent shift?


Torsten