Re: [tied] vajce =/= jabuka > zbog naglaska? (Vermeer)

Sorry about this. This was not supposed to go to the List.

Mate

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
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>> [On the prothetic v- in Cz vejce etc.]
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>>> It's risky to generalize from a single example, but that
>>> would seem to indicate that the merger of *a: and *o: in
>>> Slavic is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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>> There is an alternative explanation that takes into account the
>> circumstances that saw the rsie of prothetic vowels. It is generally
>> assumed that they arose as automatic transitional sounds during the
>> period when closed syllables had been eliminated, so that every word
>> that started in a vowel was preceded by a word that ended in a vowel
>> unless it stood at the beginning of a sentence.
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>> Now, since the word for 'egg' was neuter, the preceding word often
>> ended in -o, which would have generated a [v]-like transitional sound
>> that may have been generalized later on. However, an imaginary
>> opponent might rightly object, the 'apple' word was neuter, too, so
>> what is the difference?
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>> In my view the difference was accentological. The 'egg' word is
>> mobile, whereas the 'apple' word (and also, say, the 'lamb' word) are
>> stem-stressed. As a consequence you got on the one hand [the
>> accentual sign merely indicates the place of the stress]:
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>> *tň aje 'that egg', with the stress on _to_ because both _to_ and
>> *aje are mobile and the NAsg of the neuter o-stems is what the
>> Russians call an enclinomenon.
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>> and on the other:
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>> *to ŕblko 'that apple', *to ŕgneN 'that lamb'.
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>> The labial element can't have failed to be more salient in the former
>> type of case, where it was the rounded vowel that was stressed, than
>> in the latter. This may have tipped the balance in the dialectal area
>> continued by Czech and Slovak.
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>> [I don't doubt that this is somewhere in the literature.]
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>> Best,
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>> Willem
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