- so-called
intertonic vowels are word-internal
unstressed vowels, i.e. not in the initial, final, or
tonic (i.e. stressed) syllable,
hence intertonic. Intertonic...
- That was a
regular development stemming from the loss of
unstressed intertonic vowels,
which remained when they were stressed: j'aiu/aidier 'help' <...
-
dialectal feci,
Spanish hice,
French fis /fi/).
Preservation of most
intertonic vowels (those
between the
stressed syllable and
either the
beginning or...
-
under stress,
raising of [ɛ] to [e] in
unstressed syllables, loss of
intertonic [e];
first lenition of
intervocalic obstruents,
causing voicing of the...
- lost otherwise: fait "done (masc.)" /fɛ/ vs.
faite "done (fem.)" /fɛt/.
Intertonic vowels (unstressed
vowels in
interior syllables) were lost
entirely except...
- utarnā "to descend" has the past
participle utrā "descended",
where the
intertonic vowel in Old
Hindi utarā has been lost. -nr- > -ndr- by epenthesis, where...
-
again happens to the
northwest but not to the southeast.
Deletion of
intertonic vowels (between the
stressed syllable and
either the
first or last syllable)...
