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Article #2112Re: Tones in PIE?
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:13
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:13
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Leo Connolly (connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu) writes: >All Germanic languages have abandoned the Indo-European accent system, >replacing it with a strong dynamic accent on the first syllable (except >that verb prefixes were not stressed; noun prefixes were). Except of course that since then a deluge of loanwords has distorted the system so much, that the naive pronounciation of a foreign word is seldom on the first syllable. Guess where Swedes put the stress when they pronounce the name of northern Swedish village of Korpilombolo. (Although, I'm not entirely sure that the reason is foreign influence. Swedish words which are not compounds or inflexions are seldom more than three syllables long, so putting the stress on the first of five syllables probably feels very akward.) -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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Newsgroups: sci.lang Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sunic!seunet!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Subject: Re: Tones in PIE? Message-ID: <1993Jan25.221314.8538@enea.se> Organization: Enea Data AB References: <1993Jan20.184737.15289@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan24.114225.28870@enea.se> <1993Jan25.095840.5193@memstvx1.memst.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:13:14 GMT Lines: 16