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==== Elision ==== | ==== Elision ==== | ||
Unstressed, short vowels are elided when near stressed and/or long occurrences of the same vowel. | Unstressed, short vowels are elided when near stressed and/or long occurrences of the same vowel. | ||
* Gothic ''alamanns'' → ''*almanns'' → ''almann'', 'German'. | |||
==== Metathesis ==== | ==== Metathesis ==== | ||
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| Open || a aː aə̯ || || ɑ ɑː ɑə̯ | | Open || a aː aə̯ || || ɑ ɑː ɑə̯ | ||
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/ɑə̯/ is incredibly rare, as the environment it comes from was mostly found only in compounds. <br> | |||
The centering diphthongs come from overlong vowels in Middle Gothic. No surviving dialect kept them as overlong. They were either broken or shortened. | The centering diphthongs come from overlong vowels in Middle Gothic. No surviving dialect kept them as overlong. They were either broken or shortened. | ||