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so I am studying for an exam in old slavic linguistics, and I am having a hard time wrapping my brain around a good definition for monophthongization. anyone have any ideas?
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Re: monophthongization
Wed, September 27, 2006 - 4:44 PMHey, there's a word to take your shapka off to!
Interesting, Sonya. So we're talking about a shift in a language when the dipthongs became monopthongs? Maybe I'd treat it like haplology, only instead of syllables, you lose one vowel sound of a dipthong or two of a tripthong. I'd hesitate to use "reduction" because of the common usage meaning "change of 'pure' vowel to schwahs and 'uh', whatever the lower schwah is called.
Sorry, not much of a help, but nice to talk to you!
Craig in Arcata -
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Re: monophthongization
Wed, September 27, 2006 - 5:16 PMi know, eh? the phrase that I keep hearing in my nightmares is monophthongization of tautosyllabic diphthongs. sheesh! what am I studying this for anyways? -
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Re: monophthongization
Mon, October 2, 2006 - 9:20 AMWow! I had to look up tautosyllabic. Hm. My first thought was - do you have to say "tautosyllabic"? I guess I was thinking that a diphthong is by nature tautosyllabic, but I guess it's possible not to be, I guess you have to be picky in your definitions. Just for grins, what is an example that ISN'T tautosyllabic? Spanish "Aunque", Romanian "Oas," Hauli: Luau? They don't seem to be true diphthongs, just vowels next to eachother in sequential syllables. I always thought that diphthongs were one-syllable blends of vowels.
Craig
Lost in Arcata
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