On the development of initial Hu, Hi and the rise of initial acute diphthongs in Baltic and Slavic

Pronk discusses the development of initial *Hu and *Hi, and the rise of initial acute diphthongs in Baltic and Slavic accents. The initial stressed aaaaHu and aaaaaHi became glottalized in Balto-Slavic does not meet with any serious counterexamples. Unfortunately, there are no words that unambiguous...

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Published in:Studies in slavic and general linguistics 2011-01, Vol.37 (37), p.309-321
Main Author: PRONK, TIJMEN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Appurtenances
Consonants
Dialects
Diphthongs
Etymology
Lexical stress
Metathesis
Philology
Phonetics
Present tense
Slavic languages
Tone of voice
Verbs
Vowels
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Summary:Pronk discusses the development of initial *Hu and *Hi, and the rise of initial acute diphthongs in Baltic and Slavic accents. The initial stressed aaaaHu and aaaaaHi became glottalized in Balto-Slavic does not meet with any serious counterexamples. Unfortunately, there are no words that unambiguously reflect initial (stressed) or *i- or *u- without an initial laryngeal.
ISSN:0169-0124
1879-6303
DOI:10.1163/9789401200325_015