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  1. Circumflex

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    Historical Development and Phonological Theories
    The circumflex first appeared in systematic notation during the Alexandrian revisions of the Greek Septuagint, where it was employed not to denote pitch (as the original Greek system used the perispomeni for pitch change), but rather to mark syllables that had undergone temporal compression due to excessive syllabic resonance [3]. Early [paleographers…