ON FINAL SYLLABLES IN SLAVIC

There is no evidence for timbre differences which are due to stress or tone in early Slavic. The concord between Slavic, Lithuanian and Prussian shows that the raising of PIE *-om to *-um must be dated to the Balto-Slavic period. There is no reason to assume tonal distinctions for Proto-Germanic. 1. Since the publication of my article on the Slavic nasal vowels (1979d), where I presented a detailed chronology of the prehistoric development of the phonological System, two major articles on final syllables in Slavic have come to my attention, viz. Holzer's (1980) and Jasanoff's (1982). Here I shall clarify my position in relation to the views which are expressed in these papers. I shall first discuss the points treated by Jasanoff, adopting his order of presentation and taking Schmalstieg's comments on them into consideration, and then add a few words on other points where I find myself in disagreement wit