Jakobson's French

[Frank Gladney]

Dear Colleagues,

There's one sentence in Roman Jakobson's 1929 dissertation _Remarques sur l'evolution phonologique du russe_ ,as reprinted in vol. 1 of his Selected Writings, p. 36, that gives me trouble, specifically the last 10 words (E for e grave, 'e for e acute).

L'abrEgement des voyelles longues dans certaines conditions musicales donna aux voyelles longues des brEves corr'elatives, et ainsi la longueur se vit rendre le caract'ere phonologique.

My colleague in the French Department interprets _se vit rendre_  'expressed the phonological characteristic', but that doesn't quite do it.  

Can someone out there do better? 

Merci a l'avance,

Frank Y. Gladney

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