Re: Three vowel grades

Hello,

> Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian have
> tone accents
> (four types: rising/falling and short/long distinctions),
> inherited from Old
> Church Slavonic.
Dunno about Slovenian, but Serbo-Croatian(-Bosnian)'s tonal accents are
*not* inherited from OCS. What happened was a retraction of the stress
one step back, while the tone increase remained where the stress used to
be. That's what the source is.

Pavel
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