- said to be
unaccented or atonic.
Syllables are
frequently said to be in
pretonic or post-tonic position, and
certain phonological rules apply specifically...
-
various positions. First,
short vowels lengthened in an open
syllable in
pretonic position (i.e.
directly before the
stressed syllable). Later,
short vowels...
-
typhoon in a
stressed open syllable, as in hyphen, cycle,
cylon in a
pretonic open syllable, as in hypothesis,
psychologist word-finally
after a consonant...
-
written as ⟨e⟩ or null (⟨i⟩ in
Bohairic and
Fayyumic word-finally), but
pretonic unstressed /a/
occurs as a
reflex of
earlier unstressed */e/ near an etymological...
- the
omission of ⟨a⟩ in
Meroitic is due to its
pretonic position in the word. When ⟨a⟩ is not in a
pretonic position,
there is no
omission of this sign....
- by
sound changes including: the
raising of */(ɡ)wo-/ to /(ɡ)wu-/ in a
pretonic syllable (in
Welsh there was no raising) the
fronting of */aː/ to /œː/...
- in
actual Old
Irish m****cripts), the
interpunct is used to
separate a
pretonic preverbal element from the
stressed syllable of the verb, e.g. do·beir...
- the
vowel is
preceded by *m and
followed by *n. When the
vowel is in a
pretonic syllable,
preceded by an
alveolar consonant and
followed by a nasal. When...
- голова́ /ɡɐlɐˈva/, B. галава́ /ɣalaˈva/, U. голова́ /ɦɔlɔˈʋa/ "head"
pretonic /ʲe/ (yakanye) /ʲe/ /ʲi/ /ʲa/ /e/ R. земля́ /zʲiˈmlʲa/, B. зямля́ /zʲaˈmlʲa/...
- Jacques,
Guillaume (2012). "A
neglected phonetic law: The ****imilation of
pretonic yod to a
following coronal in North-West Semitic".
Bulletin of the School...
