Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too => and the accent of Grk. *dHugh2ter

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:49:48 -0000, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

>II. Now a question for your 'accent wondering theory'
>======================================================
>IF the Original /e:/ in pate':r was long WHY YOUR 'WONDERING ACCENT
>THEORY' DIDN'T ARRIVE TO MOVE IT on PENUL. SYLLABLE AS EXPECTED (and
>as you have proposed for /tHu-ga'-t:er/ after it would have dance for
>awhile on the first syllable /tHu'-ga-t:er/?
>
> (te:r in pate':r, being a heavy syllable too isn't it, as in
>dHuga'te:r too...)

Kiparsky:

>... the process of IAMBIC RETRACTION.
>This process, first identified in Bartoli 1930, deaccents
>a final iambic sequence (^ -') in polysyllabic words,
>resulting in recessive accentuation.

"Polysyllabic" here means "having 3 or more syllables".

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