Re: [tied] Re: Balkan Serpents (was: alb. gji (breast))

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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Balkan Serpents (was: alb. gji (breast))


> I tried:
...
> Of course, trying to derive from these both forms, there will be
different results. This is why I asked you to try to derive. I have the
feeling I am blind now, somewhere I did not understood something right.
This is why I don't want you to be angry on me, but simply I fail to see
what we have now. I tried on other way. I said, ok Alex, forget about
here since is no nasal in your next words, so you have to think just in
this way:
>
> /e:/,/oe/, /i/ >/e/ and
> /e/, /ae/>/E/.

First of all, <vi:téllu-> and <vi:télla-> both have long /i:/ and penultimate stress (the second syllable is heavy). Hence:

vi:tellu > vitEllu > vitiellu > vit,el (the glide coalesces with the consonant, palatalising it);

vi:tella > vitElla > vitiella > vit,ealã > vit,ea (loss of intervocalic /l/ with vowel contraction).

Piotr