Re: [tied] Re: PIE & Sanskrit Vowel Counts (was: Nominative: A hybr

Richard:

>Not unremediably. The stressed system could be labelled /a, i, u/ (
>= <e, e:, o>).

Only if *a can be made a distinct phoneme in his theory.

>I suspect that improving phonological plausibility will make each
>step more plausible at the cost of obscuring the overall development.

This is the problem with Miguel's theory. It's overly complex and
always ignores normal typology. My theory accounts for typology
and is simple (or as Miguel puts it "Occam-castrated"). So be it.


= gLeN

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