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ALLONGEMENT VOYELLE [1 record]

Record 1 1986-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phonetics
CONT

Grammars of German immediately subsequent to this, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and even later, had the two rules in the chronological order of their addition: Final Devoicing followed by Vowel Lengthening. (in R. D. King, Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar, 1969, p. 53).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phonétique
CONT

(...) King voudrait nous faire croire que l'allongement de la voyelle dans les deux formes serait dû à la réordonnance des deux règles [phonologiques].

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