Re: 'Vocalic Theory'

This is interesting, Could you give some examples?


--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2008-04-02 00:27, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
> > Another example: Old English breaking (fracture)
> affects
> > front vowels before "velars" (h, r, l, w?). Most
> affected is
> > /æ/, then /e/, then /i/. Even less affected (but
> still
> > affected) are the long vowels /æ:/ and /i:/. The
> hierarchy
> > is short/low - short/high - long/low - long/high.
>
> Breaking does not affect the long vowels at all
> before liquids (/r, l/),
> while short front vowels are affected more or less
> systematically (in
> non-Anglian OE). Also "back umlaut" diphthongisation
> of the type *seBun
> > seofon is restricted to short vowels.
>
> Piotr
>
>

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