Re: [tied] Patterns, Rules and Mathematics (was: the all-from-sansk

> retroflexes. Does Dr Kalyanaraman know a good on-line account?
> (/s./ has a sound IE origin, but how did /n./ come to contrast
> with /n/? How did the retroflex plosives of Sanskrit originate?
> Surely not from /s.t/ > [s.t.]! I know that in generally retroflex-
> free Europe Swedish and one Yorkshire dialect have developed
> retroflexes from /r/ + dental plosive.)

How about, from Munda and Dravidian substrate languages? (Who have
full contrasting retroflex series)?

mvh

Harald