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on short and long vowels, respectively. Neoacute is traditionally reconstructed as a rising intonation on the basis of Slovene and Russian, and the description of dialectal Serbo-Croatian (
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acute accent which is generally assumed to be a rising tone, and which was changed to a falling tone in Lithuanian. The new accent is also marked with an
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This is due to secondary lengthening of all non-final syllables. This lengthening, however, has not occurred in all Slovene dialects.
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In all Serbo-Croatian and Slovene dialects, in nominative singular of o- and i-stems the stem-final syllable of accent paradigm
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words is lengthened. For monsyllabics this amounts to lengthening of short circumflex accent ⟨ȍ⟩ to long circumflex ⟨ȏ⟩:
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mark, but its nature has changed from rising to falling. This change, usually called Lithuanian metatony, is absent in
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period the so-called neoacute accent was created by accent retraction owing to the reduction and ultimately loss of
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dialects of Lithuanian where Balto-Slavic accented acute is reflected as a broken tone.
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which exhibited numerous such developments, representing the accentual equivalent of
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Common Slavic *bra̋trъ "brother" > Serbo-Croatian
28:(its intonation, or tone), usually within the same 95:Common Slavic *bȍgъ "god" > Serbo-Croatian 8: 147:dialects a metatony occurred as a reflex of 255:Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti 220: 208: 196: 175: 168: 7: 119:. There were two forms - ⟨ò⟩ the 24:refers to the change of nature of 14: 239:"Razvoj hrvatske akcentuacije" 1: 70:Proto-Slavic old acute accent 269:, Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi 310: 237:Kapović, Mate (2008), 58:South Slavic languages 289:Prosody (linguistics) 284:Stress (linguistics) 267:Metatony in Baltic 301: 270: 258: 224: 218: 212: 206: 200: 194: 188: 185: 179: 173: 107:Slavic metataxis 80:/бра̏т, Slovene 42:Slavic languages 309: 308: 304: 303: 302: 300: 299: 298: 274: 273: 261: 245:(in Croatian), 236: 233: 228: 227: 219: 215: 207: 203: 195: 191: 186: 182: 174: 170: 165: 143:In Aukštaitian 141: 139:Baltic metatony 109: 99:/бо̑г, Slovene 54: 52:Slavic metatony 12: 11: 5: 307: 305: 297: 296: 291: 286: 276: 275: 272: 271: 259: 232: 229: 226: 225: 213: 201: 189: 180: 167: 166: 164: 161: 140: 137: 123:, and ⟨õ⟩ the 121:short neoacute 108: 105: 104: 103: 85: 84: 62:Serbo-Croatian 53: 50: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 306: 295: 294:Sound changes 292: 290: 287: 285: 282: 281: 279: 268: 264: 263:Derksen, Rick 260: 256: 252: 248: 244: 240: 235: 234: 230: 222: 221:Derksen (1996 217: 214: 210: 209:Kapović (2008 205: 202: 198: 197:Kapović (2008 193: 190: 184: 181: 177: 176:Kapović (2008 172: 169: 162: 160: 158: 154: 150: 146: 138: 136: 134: 130: 126: 125:long neoacute 122: 118: 114: 106: 102: 98: 94: 93: 92: 90: 83: 79: 75: 74: 73: 71: 67: 63: 59: 51: 49: 47: 43: 39: 35: 31: 27: 23: 19: 266: 246: 242: 216: 204: 192: 183: 171: 153:acute accent 149:Balto-Slavic 142: 124: 120: 113:Proto-Slavic 110: 100: 96: 88: 86: 81: 77: 55: 46:sound change 33: 21: 15: 111:During the 18:linguistics 278:Categories 243:Filologija 231:References 145:Lithuanian 157:Žemaitian 133:Chakavian 129:prosodeme 117:weak yers 34:metataxis 265:(1996), 30:syllable 22:metatony 199::12–13) 66:Slovene 257:: 1–39 251:Zagreb 178::9–11) 38:Baltic 26:accent 163:Notes 82:bràt 78:brȁt 64:and 40:and 223::9) 211::3) 101:bóg 97:bȏg 56:In 16:In 280:: 253:: 249:, 247:51 241:, 68:) 48:. 20:, 89:c 60:(

Index

linguistics
accent
syllable
Baltic
Slavic languages
sound change
South Slavic languages
Serbo-Croatian
Slovene
Proto-Slavic old acute accent
Proto-Slavic
weak yers
prosodeme
Chakavian
Lithuanian
Balto-Slavic
acute accent
Žemaitian
Kapović (2008
Kapović (2008
Kapović (2008
Derksen (1996
"Razvoj hrvatske akcentuacije"
Zagreb
Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti
Derksen, Rick
Categories
Stress (linguistics)
Prosody (linguistics)
Sound changes

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