Re: *kW- "?"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > If I may interject, I find the latter to be more likely. Uvulars
> > tend to have a lowering effect on adjacent vowels (e.g. Quechua /i/
> > and /u/ become /e/ and /o/ next to /q/).
> >
>
> I didn't quite get that. The premise you cite seems to support the
> alternative you don't find likely?

If the vowel was /a/ to begin with, then it was already low and could
not be lowered any further.

- Rob