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PIE → Proto-Balto-Slavic accentuation according to Jasanoff

 * 1) Hirt’s Law: retraction of non-initial accent one syllable to the left, if the target syllable contained a tautosyllabic laryngeal
 * *CVHC₀V̍ → *CV̍HC₀V
 * 1) rise of acuteness: acuteness was a stød-like “checking” articulatory gesture marking regular bimoric long syllables as opposed to hyperlong “trimoric” ones
 * 2) *VH, *V̄ → *V̄: merging of long vowels and vowels lengthened due to laryngeals
 * 3) Winter’s Law: *VD → *V̄D: lengthening due to plain voiced stops
 * 4) *-VHV-, *-V̄# → *V̄̄: rise of hyperlong (“trimoric”) vowels, cf. Germanic; this happens in hiatus after loss of laryngeals and also in word-final long vowels
 * 5) *V̄ → *V̱̄ (*V̄ˀ): all regular (“bimoric”) long vowels get acute (“glottalized”, “creaky voice”) feature
 * 6) *V̄̄ → *V̄: hyperlong (“trimoric”) vowels end up as non-acute (circumflex) long syllables
 * 7) SPL (Saussure-Pedersen’s Law): retraction of accent from short open syllable to the left with rise of rising-falling contour on the first syllable (and non-contrastive accent if landing on later syllables):
 * *#C₀VC₀V́CV → *#C₀V̚C₀VCV
 * *#…C₀VC₀VC₀V́CV → *#…C₀VC₀V̍C₀VCV
 * 1) * typologically common (moving stress away from light syllable)
 * 2) * phonetically reasonable (accented syllable loses its high tone, making the first syllable have less time to raise the tone, thus in effect it starts low, rises and falls quickly; in later syllables the rising part is pushed earlier, just shifting the place of maximal tone to the left – thus accent shift without change in contour)
 * 3) * creates contrast between “lexical” (high tone) V̍ and “left-marginal” (rising-falling) V̚ accent in initial syllables
 * 4) Proto-VDL (Proto-Vasiľev-Dolobko’s Law): loss of “left-marginal” accent in words (+clitics) of 4 syllables and more, the accent landing on the final syllable
 * 5) * removes the “left-marginal” accent in long forms, attracting it as a “lexical accent” to the word’s end (enclitic or ending)

Slavic

 * 1) Dybo’s Law (Illič-Svityč’s Law): movement of lexical accent from a non-acute syllable one syllable rightwards (not affecting lexical acute accent),
 * 2) Stang-Ivšić’s Law: retraction of accents from yers and medial circumflex syllables, creating “neo-acute” accent.

Baltic

 * 1) Leskien’s Law: word-final acute syllables are shortened (regardless if accented or not),
 * 2) Saussure’s Law: movement of acute (short or circumflex) accent one syllable to the right if the target syllable is acute.