Winter's law

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Winter's law is a sound law in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics that explains the lengthening of short vowels before voiced stops in Proto-Balto-Slavic.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Balto-Slavic sound law
phonological rule
sound law
affects Proto-Balto-Slavic prosodic system
Proto-Balto-Slavic vowel quantity
appliesTo Proto-Balto-Slavic NERFINISHED
chronology Proto-Balto-Slavic period
concerns short vowels
vowel lengthening
controversy degree of acceptance among linguists
environment before voiced stops
in stressed syllables
evidenceFrom Baltic vowel length patterns
Slavic vowel length patterns
field historical linguistics
languageFamily Balto-Slavic NERFINISHED
motivation phonological conditioning
namedAfter Werner Winter NERFINISHED
proposedBy Werner Winter NERFINISHED
publicationCentury 20th century
reconstructsStage Proto-Balto-Slavic NERFINISHED
relatedTo Dybo's law NERFINISHED
Holtzmann's law NERFINISHED
Meillet's law NERFINISHED
Saussure's law NERFINISHED
relevance Baltic languages NERFINISHED
Slavic languages
result lengthened vowels
status hypothesis
typeOfChange compensatory lengthening
segmental change
usedIn reconstruction of Proto-Balto-Slavic accentuation

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Indo-European phonology studies Winter's law