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The most notable phonetic developments from classical Chlouvānem include: | The most notable phonetic developments from classical Chlouvānem include: | ||
* Various early consonant mergers: palatalized dentoalveolars first merged with the palatals, while /mʲ/ and /ɴ̆ʲ/ shifted to /mj ɴ̆j/ and /ʀʲ/ to /ʑ/. | * Various early consonant mergers: palatalized dentoalveolars first merged with the palatals, while /mʲ/ and /ɴ̆ʲ/ shifted to /mj ɴ̆j/ and /ʀʲ/ to /ʑ/. /ɦ/ however had the tendency of aspirating an unaspirated ''voiced'' stop earlier in the word, as long as only vowels or sonorants came in between; grammatically, ''-h'' was also generalized as a case ending in the direct case to '''all''' "h-class nouns" (this will have a major phonological impact later on). The glottal stop disappeared, leaving vowels in hiatus. | ||
* The first syllable of the main root (the head, in compounds) always took fixed primary stress. If a root has four syllables or more, the second-to-last also takes secondary stress. | * The first syllable of the main root (the head, in compounds) always took fixed primary stress. If a root has four syllables or more, the second-to-last also takes secondary stress. | ||
* The first of many vowel changes started with the disappearance of breathy-voiced vowels. They mostly merged with the vowels of the same quality but long (but '''ą''' was retracted; note that the same quality of ''ę'' is the one of ''æ'', not ''e''), often leaving however their trace by aspirating an immediately following or preceding stop. | * The first of many vowel changes started with the disappearance of breathy-voiced vowels. They mostly merged with the vowels of the same quality but long (but '''ą''' was retracted; note that the same quality of ''ę'' is the one of ''æ'', not ''e''), often leaving however their trace by aspirating an immediately following or preceding stop. | ||
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** ṛ, ṝ got an epenthetic '''å''' before. | ** ṛ, ṝ got an epenthetic '''å''' before. | ||
* A new, at first allophonic, length contrast arose: stressed vowels in an open syllable became allophonically long, the others remained short. | * A new, at first allophonic, length contrast arose: stressed vowels in an open syllable became allophonically long, the others remained short. | ||
* [[w:Stød|Stød]]ogenesis: both primarily- and secondarily-stressed long vowels, as well as VN and Vr clusters were allophonically pharyngealized when followed anywhere in the word by either a laryngeal consonant - excluding | * [[w:Stød|Stød]]ogenesis: both primarily- and secondarily-stressed long vowels, as well as VN and Vr clusters were allophonically pharyngealized when followed anywhere in the word by either a laryngeal consonant - excluding /ħ/ - or a retroflex one. | ||
* Syncope of all absolutely word-final unstressed vowels, as well as unstressed pretonic vowels (except if preceded by two consonants; if there are two consecutive syllables between two different stresses, then the first is syncopated if the first syllable's consonant is a sonorant and the other isn't), were deleted. Deleted /e̝/, /i/ umlauted a preceding vowel by raising it; /u/ by backing it. Long vowels became phonemic because of this. | * Syncope of all absolutely word-final unstressed vowels, as well as unstressed pretonic vowels (except if preceded by two consonants; if there are two consecutive syllables between two different stresses, then the first is syncopated if the first syllable's consonant is a sonorant and the other isn't), were deleted. Deleted /e̝/, /i/ umlauted a preceding vowel by raising it; /u/ by backing it. Long vowels became phonemic because of this. | ||
* /h/ and /hʷ/ were deleted in all positions except before /e/, /a/, and /ɔ/; /ɴ̆/ was also deleted when preceding a consonant that is not a stop or /s/. This made stød phonemic, moreover becoming a distinct feature of "h-nouns". | * /h/ and /hʷ/ were deleted in all positions except before /e/, /a/, and /ɔ/; /ɴ̆/ was also deleted when preceding a consonant that is not a stop or /s/. This made stød phonemic, moreover becoming a distinct feature of "h-nouns". | ||