Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their thematic vowel

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> > But IE does not seem to have had regular word-initial accent.
> >
> > - Rob
>
> ***
> Patrick:
>
> Au contraire. The commonest root form, *CéC-, indicates a
> predominantly word-initial stress-accent.
>
> ***

Predominantly? I don't know about that. The earliest (and
overwhelming) pattern I see is regular stress on the penultimate
syllable. After reduction of many unstressed vowels (particularly
near resonants), that pattern was essentially changed into "free
stress".

- Rob