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Winter’s Law
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Winter’s law is a sound law formulated by Werner Winter in 1978, stating that short vowels were lengthened in Balto-Slavic before Proto-Indo-European original voiced stops (which subsequently merged with the Proto-Indo-European aspirated stops). This article first presents some historical facts about Winter’s law and its reception and then discusses problems associated with it…

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Matasović, Ranko, “Winter’s Law”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief General Editor Marc L. Greenberg, Lenore A. Grenoble. Consulted online on 07 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032138>
First published online: 2020



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