Re: [tied] Vrddhi, heavy syllables and syllabic voiced continuants

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 12060
Date: 2002-01-16

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:28:55, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Is it possible that a "heavy syllable", at a stage just before
>Common IE, might be described as either monosyllabic CVC, or
>a syllable of the form (C)CVCF(C...) where C refers to any consonant
>and F refers to all voiceless continuants (*x, *xW, and *s)?

A heavy syllable is a syllable of the form ...VCC or ...V:C (and
..VCCC, ..V:CC, etc.).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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