title: Shortening of the original long root vowels in Danish
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Kuzmenko, Yury
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T11:36:46Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T11:36:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kuzmenko Yu. K. Shortening of the original long root vowels in Danish. Scandinavian Philology, 2018, vol. 16, issue 2, pp. 255–276.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2018.205
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15269
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The present article is a follow-up to the paper by Kuz’menko Yu. K. (2017) about
  the shortening of the long consonants in Danish and in West Germanic languages,
  in which author tried to show that the long consonants lost their syllable-initial and
  morpheme-final part (fal-la > falə) in order to provide the coincidence of syllable and
  morpheme boundaries. The next step in the same direction in the Germanic languages
  was the shortening of original long stressed vowels (and the change of the contact type
  free (open) > checked (close). This paper deals with the development of checked contact
  words in Danish, where the shortening of original long vowels occurs before our
  very eyes. The vowel shortening and the development of checked and superchecked
  (stød on consonant) contact in Danish can be observed when comparing three different
  Danish dictionaries (ODS, DDO and DK) reflecting three stages of this development.
  The number of sources of checked contact words in Danish is high, because of the Danish
  consonant shift that shifted almost all the original postvocalic consonants, turning
  fortis into lenis and lenis into components of diphthongs. Furthermore, the Danish
  /ð/ has the same shortening effect on the preceding vowel as approximants [w] and [j].
  The change of the contact type and vowel shortening also occurred in English (cf. bow,
  eye and book, dead). The shortening of the original long vowels in Danish and English,
  which resulted in the increased number of words with the coincidence of syllable and
  morpheme boundaries is treated in the article as a result of the functioning of a selfadjusting
  language system which can rebuild itself in accordance with a certain task. In
  our case this task consists in ensuring a better segmentation of the root morpheme in
  text (facilitated by the coincidence of the root with the syllable).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: With the support by grant No. 17-04-00360-OGN (2017–2019) from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 16; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: English
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical phonology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: change of the contact type
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: shortening of long vowels
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: morphosyllabismus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Shortening of the original long root vowels in Danish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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