Re: Odp: [tied] Sanskrit /r/

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 7721
Date: 2001-06-22

Note that English /r/ colours the preceding vowel causing its centring or retraction (in Middle English it even made /e/ change into /a/, just like *h2), and its loss in non-rhotic accents triggers compensatory lengthening (/kard/ > /ka:d/). I'm sure /r/ itself is a latterday "laryngeal" :)))
 
This odd feeling of deja-vu is nothing extraordinary in historical phonology.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Sergejus Tarasovas
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Odp: [tied] Sanskrit /r/

So, by analogy with PIE consonants /y/ and /w/, the following
analysis can be proposed:

AmEn /r/ is a phoneme with the following allophones:
[r] when functions as non-syllabic (before vowels etc)
[&r] when functions as syllabic (before consonants, word-final etc)
[ur] prolongated grade of [&r] (etymologically < /r/ + ProtoAmEn
laryngeal?)
[ir] is to be explained.

:))))))))))))))))))))

Sergei