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Parallels to the Stops in Hittite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Stefán Einarsson
Stefán Einarsson*
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University
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Abstract

[Many languages have their voiceless stops longer than the corresponding voiced ones, and no instance of the contrary is known. It is suggested that this may be a universal law, and possible interpretations of it are discussed. These considerations are offered in explanation of certain orthographic habits of Hittite (tt < **t, etc.) which have troubled Sturtevant unnecessarily.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 8 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1932, pp. 177 - 182
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Copyright © 1932 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 For a detailed description of the voice phenomena see my Beiträge zur Phonetik der isländischen Sprache 42-3 (Oslo 1927), and A Specimen of Southern Icelandic Speech = Skrifter utg. av det Norske Videnskaps Akademi i Oslo. II Hist. Filos. Kl. 1930 Nr. 7. 16-17.

2 Some of the Finnish dialects are very rich in svarabhaktivowels. Is this, perhaps, another analogy to the Hittite sound system?

3 For a detailed discussion of these correspondences in loan-words see T. E. Karsten, 'Zur Kenntnis der ältesten Germanischen Lehnwörter des Ostsee-finnischen', APhSc. 1. 244-83.