The hypothesis of a postpositional compensatory lengthening (so-called van Wijk’s law) vs. the relative chronology of Common Slavic phonologi­cal devel­opments – in search of inconsistencies

<p>“Van Wijk’s law” is currently defined by its advocates as a lengthening of short or shortened medial and final vowels due to an assimilation of the postconsonantal *<em>j</em> to them. In the present paper I am trying to demonstrate that this assumption is at variance with the r...

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Main Author: Zbigniew Babik
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Vilnius University 2018-02-01
Series:Baltistica
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Online Access:http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/article/view/2320