word-finally

This comment once we have voicing of the "clipped" deictic, Syncope is triggered due to heavy stress accent and so the duration of the remnant supershort schwa word-finally contributes to adding length to the surviving vowel in the now monosyllabic word additionally seems to propose getting compensatory lengthening twice out of the loss of one segment, which is pretty implausible.

A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE 2008

These spelling alternations suggest that aspiration is not a contrastive feature word-finally so that Etruscan -c and -χ are both pronounced as /-kʰ/, for example.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

So the fact that PIE suffixes lack things like *-p and *-dh, despite these sounds being allowed word-finally in some wordforms, isn't particularly odd in my view.

Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008

Since all vowels seem to equally disappear word-finally during Pre-Etruscan Syncope, I would naturally assume that the transitive participle suffix -u must consequently come from an earlier diphthong *-au.

The Lost Vowels of Pre-Etruscan Syncope 2008

The loss of contrasts in word-final position is rather common crosslinguistically as we can observe in German where the word Hand is pronounced /hant/ since voicing contrasts are likewise neutralized word-finally.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

So once we have voicing of the "clipped" deictic, Syncope is triggered due to heavy stress accent and so the duration of the remnant supershort schwa word-finally contributes to adding length to the surviving vowel in the now monosyllabic word: *CV:C-z.

A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE 2008

These spelling alternations suggest that aspiration is not a contrastive feature word-finally so that Etruscan -c and -χ are both pronounced as /-kʰ/, for example.

Bronze Age Areal influence in Anatolia and Etruscan 2008

Since all vowels seem to equally disappear word-finally during Pre-Etruscan Syncope, I would naturally assume that the transitive participle suffix -u must consequently come from an earlier diphthong *-au.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

The loss of contrasts in word-final position is rather common crosslinguistically as we can observe in German where the word Hand is pronounced /hant/ since voicing contrasts are likewise neutralized word-finally.

What are Etruscans doing with those eggs? 2008

Many a syllable, especially word-finally, now consisted of a consonant-yer.

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