Early Slavic short and long o and e

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.9.1.5–33.2016

Keywords:

vowel, neoacute, Proto-Slavic, Proto-Slavic.

Abstract

The articlediscusses the development of the Proto-Slavic vowels *o and *e with a neoacute accent. These vowels are reflected as short vowels, diphthongs or long vowels in the modern Slavic languages. Their outcome is conditioned by the origin of the neoacute: if it arose through retraction of the accent from a word-final jer, the newly accented *o or *e became long and was subsequently diphthongized in a number of Slavic dialects. If the neoacute accent arose in a different way, the quantity of the newly accented *o or *e depends on the dialect.

Author Biography

  • Tijmen Pronk, Leiden University

    Leiden, Netherlands. E-mail: t.c.pronk@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Published

28.10.2020

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Articles

How to Cite

Pronk, T. (2020). Early Slavic short and long o and e. Slavia Centralis, 9(1), 5–33. https://doi.org/10.18690/scn.9.1.5–33.2016