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Re: Wenedyk - Master (?) Plan

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 20, 2002, 8:38
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> > >> > >Nasalization of the preceding vowel leads (like in > Russian and other > > >> > >Slavic languages, but unlike in Polish) lead to the > following changes: > > >> > >[a~] [u] > > > > Back to this-- is it possible the correspondence results > from a previous > > schwa stage? or unaccented vowel of some sort? > > I doubt it. It occurs often on accented vowels, too. But of > course, who said > that schwa cannot be accented?)
May it be noted that Bulgarian does exactly this - [o~] gives [@], as in _l@k_, Rus. _luk_ (bow (the one which goes with arrows)), Lithuanian _lankas_ "curve", or _@g@l_, Rus. _ugol_, Eng. _angle_. Pavel -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas --Scottish proverb

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