Re: [tied] Re: Mi- and hi-conjugation in Germanic

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:49:20 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
>On 05-03-10 05:48, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> [BTW, why is there no fracture in <heht>? There should be,
>> if the form is old].
>
>Not in Anglian, where diphthongs (long and short, of whatever origin)
>were smoothed before velars.

I see: Brook's Old English merely states that Anglian has
fracture less often than WS, in particular not of /a/ (/æ/)
before lC and sometimes rC (ald, barn), but it is silent
about /h(C)/.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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