Skip to the main content

Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Vol. 38 No. 1, 2012.

Review article

The Slovene neo-circumflex revisited

Frederik Kortlandt ; Department of comparative linguistics Leiden University

Full text: english pdf 338 Kb

page 117-122

downloads: 581

cite

Abstract

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.

Keywords

accentuation; Slovene neo-cirkumflex; acute; compensatory lengthening; van Wijk's law; Dybo's law

Hrčak ID:

96832

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/96832

Publication date:

7.2.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

Visits: 1.556 *