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Excerpt from The Verbal Accent in Russian: Dissertation Presented to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Freiburg, Switzerland, for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in June 1806
It is a generally recognized fact, that the primitive Slavonic accent is of primary importance in the reconstruction of tho Indo-European accent. Of the Slavonic languages, Polish, Bohemian and Sorbish have a fixed accentuation; Russian, Serbian, Slovenian and Bulgarian are characterized by their movable accent. Fluctuating accent was also peculiar to the Ur-Slavonic accent and can be reproduced by comparing the modern Slavonic tongues. Die Betonung des Altbulgarischen kennen wir nicht, dieser Schaden wird aber dadurch beseitigt, dass sich aus den modernen slavischen Dialekten, vor allem aus dem Russischen und Serbischen der europaische Akzent z. T. rekonstruieren lasst. Da eine getrennte Entwicklung dieser Dialekte Stattgefunden hat, so darf man dem erschlossenen urslavischen Akzent grosseren Wert beilegen als dem litauischen; denn es zeigt die Ubereinstimmung zwischen Russisch und Serbisch fur das Urslavische, das der indogermanischen Sprache viel naher liegt als das heutige Litauisch."
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