Abstract

As is known, in the Turkic languages, long vowels from an etymological point of view are divided into primary and secondary. From a functional point of view, Turkic longitudes are divided into phonological, that is, having a semantic difference, and phonetic, having no such meaning. In the development of theoretical thought on the origin of long vowels, the following techniques are shown as the main mechanisms: 1) dropping out of the intervocalic consonant, 2) spirantization of back-lingual consonants r, r, 3) change in the accent structure, 4) numerical metathesis. Such an interpretation of the origin of long vowels was one of the achievements of the Turkic studies of that time. However, these mechanisms cannot explain all cases of the origin of the Turkic longitudes. Therefore, the mechanisms of the emergence of such segment units require a comprehensive study

Keywords

Turkic languages, primary long vowels, secondary long vowels, mechanism, vocal structure

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