--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> As far as I can see, *o is predominant in old stressed positions
> while *e represents unstressed vocalism
Then it could be paralelled typologically with the East Slavic
developement (expiratory) stressed [e] > [o]. On the other hand, from
(at least my) psychoacoustic point of view, expiratory stress is
associated with the higher rather than lower tone. May be one should
explain this phenomenon in articulatory terms (i.e., stress somehow
provokes shifting the tongue back) ?
Sergei