Re: [tied] Re: ka and k^a

From: glen gordon
Message: 40710
Date: 2005-09-26

Patrick to Miguel:
> Of course, we do not expect *H1 to 'color' at all.

Good.


Patrick to Miguel:
> But, since you follow these matters more closely
> than I, is the prevailing theory at this moment
> that *H2 does not color *o when before or after it?

It's been the prevailing theory for quite some time
that *h2 does not colour *o. It only colours *e to
*a, evidently by lowering it.


> And, if that is the prevailing view, why would that
> be?

By the phonetic nature of *h2 itself. Vowel colouring
is similarly accomplished in Arabic and many other
languages in this way.


= gLeN


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