The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent3@...>
wrote:

> Yes, but is the new evidence that Jens mentioned incompatible with

any

> of the various proposals? I've seen, for instance, a suggestion

that

> the traditional *d, etc, were lax stops. I don't see how combining
> the traditional *t (whatever its assumed realization in any
> particular proposal) with a laryngeal would produce a lax stop.

It doesn't much matter, for as soon as a voiceless stop is voiced it
will have an innate tendency to acquire a lax articulation all by
itself. In most languages I know /b,d,g/ are voiced and lax,
while /p,t,k/ are voiceless and fortis, and many of them still have
living rules that change one set into the other. I suppose that is
what happened in *pípH3eti > PIE *píbeti.

Jens