INTERSECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE VOWEL QUANTITY SYSTEMS
Summary
Under the intersection of two dialectal systems – Southwest (A) and East (B) Lithuanian – the urban Lithuanian system C comes into being. In the latter, vowel length dephonologization is obvious and predicted because of the essential quantitative and qualitative differences existing in both A and B systems. The synchronic alternation there is considered as an indicative of diachronic change in progress.
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