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Excerpt from A Contribution to the History of the Unaccented Vowels in Old French: Inaugural Dissertation Presented to the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
For Diez and the earlier masters in Romance philology, the development of the unaccented vowels was a division of the science given over largely to the action of chance. Diez recog nized, to be sure, that the outfall of the penultimate vowel in proparoxytones was the rule in French and Provencal, and that the ultima, when retained, resumes the form of mute, or feminine, e. Farther than this he did not go.
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