Re: [tied] Re: Slavic palatalistions: why /c^/, /c/?

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:21:02 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>It could accounted for with these rules (I've added an intermediate
>stage pre-ProtoSlavic out of convenvenience of rule ordering)
>
>PSatem > p-PS
>*i > *ji

No. *i gives /I/, *ji gives /ji/ (at least in OCS).

>alternatively, one could skip the kj-stage and let the front vowels
>and j palatalise the k's directly

Yes. That's the first palatalization.

When *ai was fronted and monophthongized to the long vowel
*/E:/, /kai/ underwent the second palatalization, resulting
in /cê/. That's all.


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