Re: [tied] Re: Slavic accentology

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:07:15 +1000, Kim Bastin
<kimb@...> wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 07:16:26 +0200, you wrote:
>
>>I meant: are there any examples in any language of a
>>geminate consonant (I'll also accept a consonant cluster)
>>being simplified with compensatory lengthening of the
>>_following_ vowel? I'm aware of thousands of soundlaws, but
>>I don't recall ever running into this one. Compensatory
>>lengthening of the preceeding vowel, yes. No effect on
>>neighbouring vowels, of course. But lengthening of the next
>>vowel? I find it very unlikely from a phonetic point of
>>view, and it certainly doesn't seem to happen in Slavic
>>cases like *attikos > otIcI or *dubno > dUno, *supnos >
>>sUnU.
>
>It's certainly unusual, but I can quote a case from some dialects of
>Finnish where G disappears after liquids with lengthening of the
>following vowel, e.g. *jalGan > jalaan (standard Finnish jalan 'foot,
>leg (agsg)'). The nsg is jalka — *G is the weak grade that appears
>before a closed syllable.

Thanks, that's an example. I'm afraid, however, that it
doesn't really help to diminish my lack of trust in the
alleged development vol'l'a > vol'a:. The mechanism behind
the Finnish case is clearly some kind of "laryngeal
vocalization".

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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