Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mcarrasquer" <miguelc@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mandicdavid" davidmandic@ wrote:
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> > > What I don't understand is how the word-final yers could
> > > disappear even if they were stressed.
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> They weren't stressed anymore when they disappeared.
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Sure, but why had they lost the stress? Because of that 'trochaic'
thing, I suppose. It sounds rather convincing.