- léto → líəta (
posttonic o), ne vém → na vém 'I don't know' (pretonic e), hléb → hlàb 'loaf' (tonic e), jêčmen → jèčman 'barley' (
posttonic e).
Vowel reduction...
-
which the third-last
syllable could be stressed,
which was lost as open
posttonic syllables lost
their vowels: */ˈχupiraw/ > */ˈχupraw/ 'transformation'...
-
stressed syllable) or
posttonic (after the
stressed syllable). For
example /ɔ/
articulates as [u] in
pretonic position and as [o] in
posttonic position, and only...
-
Kenstowicz (1994)
states that "...
American English schwa deletes in
medial posttonic syllables ...", and
gives as
examples words such as sep(a)rate (as an...
- [dstɾaˈta]. Sometimes, the
phenomenon occurs even more
intensely in
unstressed posttonic vowels (except the
final ones) and
causes the
reduction of the word and...
-
proposed rules: *deywós and its
nominative plural *deywóes show
pretonic and
posttonic e-grade, respectively, and *wĺ̥kʷos has an
accented zero grade. Many examples...
- tone (/pa/ → [pá]). However, this
development appears to not
occur in
posttonic syllables, and she
called it "pitch accent" instead.
Malagasy has a verb–object–subject...
- and [tʃ]
appear frequently,
while [j]
appears in
codas and in
onsets of
posttonic syllables when, in the
nucleus of the syllable, the
vowel is oral. The...
-
allophone of
unstressed /i/,
especially next to
nasal consonants. In
posttonic position,
there is a
tendency to
lower vowels, so that both /o/ and /e/...
- falling"/HL ȁ, "long falling"/HML ȃ, "short rising"/LH à, "long rising"/LMH á, "
posttonic length" ā
Common Slavic: "short falling"/HL (short cir****flex) ȁ, "long...
