Re: [tied] More Slavic accentology

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas Olander" <olander@...>
wrote:

>
>
> In Copenhagen, some of us believe in a sound law we call "Slaaby-

Larsen's Law" (named

> after Martin Slaaby-Larsen, who pointed it out to us)[]:
>
> In Pre-Slavic, words with mobile accentuation containing a medial

cluster C1C2 (where C1

> = obstruent, C2 = any consonant, probably except j and w) get

fixed root-stress (yielding

> CS a.p. a or - via Dybo's law - a.p. b).
>
> This explains [...]

Hey, why wasn't I told about it? I guess I would have been, had
Martin not forgotten to hand in his examination report last term. I
also believe I have seen it applied in papers by the rest of you,
but without paying enough attention to it to really understand it.
It is certainly better than a few pieces of nonsense I have written
about some of the sets of examples myself. It looks like a
definitive discovery as I see it now.

As ever,

Jens