- 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...
- 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/...
-
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....
- Jacques,
Guillaume (2012). "A
neglected phonetic law: The ****imilation of
pretonic yod to a
following coronal in North-West Semitic".
Bulletin of the School...
-
stops that
display a
creaky voice quality at the
margin of the
vowel in
pretonic (and syllable-final) environments." —
Bruce Rigsby & John
Ingram (1990)...
-
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...
- Jacques,
Guillaume (2012). "A
neglected phonetic law: The ****imilation of
pretonic yod to a
following coronal in North-West Semitic".
Bulletin of the School...
-
vowel is
pretonic (before the
stressed syllable) or
posttonic (after the
stressed syllable). For
example /ɔ/
articulates as [u] in
pretonic position and...
