Abstract
‘Wheeler’s Law’ (also known as ‘dactylic retraction’) refers to an accent retraction process reconstructed for Common Greek by which oxytone words became paroxytone if they ended in a heavy-light-light syllable sequence, e.g. *poikilós > poikílos ‘multi-colored’.
‘Wheeler’s Law’ refers to a phonologically conditioned accent retraction process reconstructed for an early pandialectal stage of Greek by which oxytone words became paroxytone if they ended in a heavy-light-light syllable sequence (‘HLL’), e.g. *poikilós > poikílo…