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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:
> Do you have any idea what caused
> the "contrastive accent" to come about?
I can only guess, but it would in part arise automatically if the
addition of a syllabic morpheme caused the accent to move to the
next vowel as we see in paradigms. This could have been associated
with a change of part-of-speech (athematic sbst. => thematic adj.)
and have started the machine.
Jens