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Download full textGrundt, Alice Wyland – 1975
This paper argues that the origin of the tonal accents in Low German, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian can be explained on the basis of segmental circumstances, that they may be considered as secondary in the historical development of these languages, and that they arise when the redundant tonal transition in centering diphthongs becomes distinctive…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Componential Analysis, Consonants, Diachronic Linguistics
