On 2007-01-23 19:22, mandicdavid wrote:
> Can you explain this 'trochaic prominence' issue. I'm not familiar
> with it. Thanx.
That's what underlies Havlík's Law: consecutive syllables with lax high
vowels are gathered up into [S W] pairs (S = strong, W = weak). As this
is about the most common rhythmic structure on Earth, one can speculate
that the jers, having become lexically accentless, just settled down
into the default natural pattern.
Piotr