Re: Stress shift
| From: | Pavel Iosad <edricson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 3, 2003, 19:38 |
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Hello,
> Other languages are known to have similar processes. Polish
> switched from
> the arbitrariliy-stressed Old Church Slavic to its penult
> stress, and it
> did it very quickly: 3 or 4 centuries max, I believe.
Aargh! The Proto-Slavic stress system was most complicated (not realy
arbitrary though), but OChSl is *not* stressed like Proto-Slavic.
Pavel
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