Re: Sound changes

BP Jonsson skrev:

> Andreas Johansson:
> > I think what I hear is mainly that the second
> > syllable of _anden_ "the wild duck" is a bit less
> > unstressed than that of _anden_ "the spirit".
> Strange, since I would say the opposite is the case.
Yes. Perhaps he meant "stressed" instead of "unstressed".

I had a prof who claimed that the difference between grave
and acute accent wasn't one of pitch accent. He thought
that the grave accent actually was a word just stressed
equally at two syllables. Of course, he's originally from
the US and also has some odd theory about the origin of
language, but still. Grave accent definitely has a stronger
stress on the last syllable than has the acute accent.

||| daniel

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