Re: [tied] Re: PIE voiceless aspirates

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 41775
Date: 2005-11-06

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Subject: [tied] Re: PIE voiceless aspirates


I wonder: Are there any instances of phonemic difference between
aspirated stops and stops + h in IE?

If this is not the case, perhaps everything that look like aspirated
stops were stops + h(1,2or3) in IE, and the whole consept of aspirated
stops an illution?

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Patrick:

I do not anticipate any phonemic difference since *H is plainly aspiration.

*tH or *t + *H would be /tH/.

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