is named for the Czech scholar Antonín Havlík (1855–1925), who determined the pattern in 1889. While Havlík's law was a precursor to the loss of the yers...
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History of Proto-Slavic (redirect from Law of Open Syllables)
(known as yers) developed into "strong" and "weak" variants according to Havlík's law. The weak variants could no longer be accented, and if they were accented...
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Havlík (born 1959), Czech action artist Vlastimil Havlík (born 1957), Czech basketball player Havlík's law, a linguistic paradigm dealing with the reduced...
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followed by a voiced consonant and a word-final yer, which was deleted (see Havlík's law) examples: PS *rogъ > OP rōg, PS *gněvъ > OP gniēw, PS *stalъ > OP stāł...
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beginning from the late dialects of Proto-Slavic. The process is known as Havlík's law. In general, short vowels in Irish are all reduced to schwa ([ə]) in...
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(such as Belarusian and South Russian) until after the application of Havlík's law, Shevelov (1977) calls into question early projections of this change...
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weak yers were deleted. Ivšić's law Also, Stang's law; Stang–Ivšić's law. Accented weak yers, as according to Havlík's law, lost their accent to the preceding...
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In some allomorphs, /ɛ/ is inserted between consonants as a result of Havlík's law: |ɛ/∅|: matka ('mother') – matek ('mothers' gen.); lež ('lie') – lži...
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lengthening when a yer in the next syllable disappeared according to Havlík's law. In Polish this only happened in penultimate syllables (which thus became...
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*d, *g Merger of *o and *a: PIE *a/*o, *ā/*ō → PS *a, *ā (→ CS *o, *a) Law of open syllables: All closed syllables (syllables ending in a consonant)...
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