Re: Slavic *-je/o

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>...I was toying with the idea that the result of the
> early lengthening of *i and *u in Balto-Slavic (as in certain

vr.ddhied

> iteratives) was acuted and therefore indistinguishable from old *-ih-

,

> *-uh- (the only source of regularly inherited long high vowels).

I see, but the whole point of Illic^-Svityc^, Kortlandt and their
followers is that it was the segmental laryngeal itself, not its
prosodic aftermath, that triggers Hirt's Law. Eg., Winternian acutes,
indistinguishable from old *-Vh- as they are, don't retract stress, do
they? That's why I asked.

Sergei