In linguistics, metatony refers to the change of nature of accent (its intonation, or tone), usually within the same syllable. When the accent also changes...
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Balto-Slavic sound law that triggered the retraction of the accent (or metatony in the valence theory) under certain conditions. Under Hirt's law, a non-initial...
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led to the Neo-Shtokavian accentuation, also known as "Neo-Shtokavian metatony" Retractor (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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of word histories, Merriam-Webster, 1991, ISBN 978-0-87779-603-9, p.71 Metatony in Baltic, Volume 6 of Leiden studies in Indo-European by Rick Derksen...
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of word histories, Merriam-Webster, 1991, ISBN 978-0-87779-603-9, p. 71 Metatony in Baltic, Volume 6 of Leiden studies in Indo-European by Rick Derksen...
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Illich-Svitych's law (redirect from Holzer's metatony)
mobile-accent (accent paradigm c). This change is also termed "Holzer's metatony", after linguist Georg Holzer who described it. Older literature suggests...
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Republic] (in Latvian). Vilnius: Mokslas. p. 101. Derksen, Rick (1996). Metatony in Baltic. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Kalnača, Andra; Lokmane, Ilze (2021). Latvian...
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Aukštaitian dialect, the acute becomes a falling tone (so-called "Lithuanian metatony") and is marked with an acute accent, and the circumflex becomes a rising...
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free and mobile in paradigms. In the process known as "Neo-Shtokavian metatony" or "retraction", length of the old syllables was preserved, but their...
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University of California Press. p. 122. Derksen (1996:11) Derksen, Rick (1996). Metatony in Baltic. Leiden studies in Indo-European. Vol. 6. Amsterdam: Rodopi....
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Balto-Slavica. Rodopi. p. 87. ISBN 978-90-420-2652-0. Derksen, Rick (1996). Metatony in Baltic. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-5183-990-6. Derksen, Rick (2015). Etymological...
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in place of the probable acuteness (from *-ah₂-) is due to Nikolaev's metatony, and not to the Olander's analogy. Presumably, this can be confirmed by...
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varies drastically between dialects and current standard contains a lot of metatony, mostly from acute to circumflex. Modern Standard Slovene has four different...
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