Pregledni rad
The Slovene neo-circumflex revisited
Frederik Kortlandt
; Department of comparative linguistics Leiden University
Sažetak
Keith Langston disagrees with my account of the Slovene neo-circumflex. He rejects compensatory lengthening as an explanation of the neo-circumflex, primarily on theoretical grounds. His "moraic analysis" is quite unacceptable to me because it starts from an a priori segmentation of the speech flow. In a strict autosegmental approach, the segmentation of the speech flow should be part of the analysis and not be given a priori. Langston's rejection of van Wijk's law, according to which the simplification of certain consonant clusters yielded lengthening of the following vowel, is based on a misguided theoretical interpretation which led him astray.
Ključne riječi
accentuation, Slovene neo-cirkumflex, acute, compensatory lengthening, van Wijk's law, Dybo's law
Hrčak ID:
96832
URI
Posjeta: 889 *