Pseudo-epenthetic /l/ in Slavic - mistake for Slovene

[Alexandre Vaxman]

Dear Ajda, dear all,
   
  Thank you for the correction. I checked carefully and found where my mistake came
  from.
  Nahtigal's "Slovanski jeziki" I quoted from uses the abbreviations "sl." for "Slavic" and
   "slov." for "Slovene". I have misread "sl." as "Slovene" instead of "Slavic". Shame on me! 
  So your remark has been very helpful, since it is important for this particular piece of data. 
  Nonetheless, my question is still valid concerning other languages, e.g. Russian, where, as I read in "Ocherk russkoj morfonologii" by Churganova, the modern /l'/ in verbs (1P. Sg. in Pres.) occurs in the position where there were before an /i/ - namely, in the desinence <ie>.
   
   Ajda, thank you again. 
   
   Looking forward for other corrections/advises/remarks.
   
  Best,
   
  A. Vaxman
   
   
  

Ajda Kljun <ajda.kljun at SIOL.NET> wrote:
  Hello!
I'm not sure if that's of any importance, but I wanted to point out that 
there is no such word as 'plujo' in the Slovene language.
I could have misunderstood something since I didn't understand 90% of your 
message, being linguistically uneducated, but I thought that you could have 
misquoted something or... whatever :)

Regards, Ajda.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandre Vaxman" 
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 7:16 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Pseudo-epenthetic /l/ in Slavic


Dear SEELANGers,

Reading Rajko Nahtigal's "Slavic languages" (Ljubljana, 1952; Moscow, 196=
3),
I found the following statement:
"The soft l' (also) developed from non-syllabic i after labial conso-
nants: i.-e. * (s)pieu [non-syllabic i and u] , lat. spuo, lith. spiauju,=

slovene pl'ujo [open o]. The traditionnal label "l-epentheticum" (inserte=
d
l) is not correct for the soft l'".
I have four questions pertaining to this quotation:

1)Where does the difference between a non-syllabic i and the consonantal =
j
lie? Slavists have always used this notion of non-syllabic i, e.g.
Reformatskij (1975) "O foneme j i "i" v russkom jazyke" (in: Fonolo-
gicheskie etjudy) speaks of three different phonetic realizations of /j/:=

as a [j], as a zero, and, third, precisely as "non-syllabic i".
Is there any phonological and/or phonetic criteria justifying the existen=
ce
of such phoneme? As far as I know, it is not much used in the generative =

framework with wich I am more acquainted .

2)What could cause the deletion of a non-syllabic i in latin "spuo" and i=
ts
deglidification in lithuanian "spiauju";

3)Could you cite examples from other Slavic languages, especially with =

pseudo-epenthetic consonants other then /l/?

4)What is in your thought the reason of this sound change?
Would it be appropriate to explain in by a positional factor like
fortition i --> l'/ C.___ where . is a syllabic boundary?

Finall, what literature could you recommend on these topics?

Best,

Alex Vaxman,
PhD student,
Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Aix en Provence, France

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