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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> "word-final acuted long vowels and /ie/, /uo/ are shortened in
> disyllabics and polysyllables, while in monosyllables (not
shortened
> due to their proclitic position) they - as well as word-final
> acuted /ai/, /ei/ and /au/ -- change their acute to circumflex".
read
"word-final acuted long vowels and /ie/, /uo/ are shortened in
disyllabics and polysyllables, while in monosyllables (not shortened
due to their proclitic position) they -- as well as word-final
acuted /ai/, /ei/ and /au/ *despite the number of syllables in the
word* -- change their acute to circumflex".
>the acute in *-ái being
> converted to the circumflex (first in disyllabics, and generalized
> later).
read
the acute in *-ái being converted to the circumflex by the Leskien's-
Endzeli:ns' law. (The obvious problem with this explanation would be
the question why there's no trace of the Saussure's law in N. pl. of
barytona like pir~s^tai.)
Sergei