Osthoff's law
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Osthoff's law is a sound change in Indo-European linguistics describing the shortening of long vowels before resonant consonants followed by another consonant.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Osthoff's law canonical | 1 |
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical sound change
ⓘ
phonological rule ⓘ sound law ⓘ |
| affects | long vowels ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Proto-Indo-European NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concerns | interaction of vowel length and syllable structure ⓘ |
| condition | resonant followed by another consonant (RC) cluster ⓘ |
| controversies | scope and exact formulation in different Indo-European branches ⓘ |
| describes | shortening of long vowels before resonant consonants followed by another consonant ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | Hermann Osthoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| environment | before resonant consonant plus another consonant ⓘ |
| field | Indo-European linguistics ⓘ |
| hasConcept | compensatory shortening ⓘ |
| involves | vowel shortening ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Hermann Osthoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesOn | syllable nucleus ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Brugmann's law
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sievers' law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relevantTo |
Balto-Slavic historical phonology
ⓘ
Greek historical phonology ⓘ Indo-Iranian historical phonology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusInLinguistics | widely discussed ⓘ |
| timeOfFormulation | late 19th century ⓘ |
| typeOfChange | quantitative vowel change ⓘ |
| usedFor |
explaining vowel length alternations
ⓘ
reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European forms ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.