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Re: Three vowel grades

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 24, 2002, 20:03
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 -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas --Scottish proverb

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