From: P&G
Message: 24887
Date: 2003-07-30
>>Reconstructed "words" have a full vowel somewhere for theWhy? What's wrong with *&1s-mén before the breakup?
>>accent - so what traditionally appears as a syllabic laryngeal could be a
>>consonant cluster, simplified after the break-up.
>That would imply zero grade (e.g. *h1és-mi, *&1s-mén) _after_ the breakup,
>which is a lot harder to swallow than 2 additional phonemes.