Re[2]: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter

At 10:00:00 PM on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, Patrick Ryan
wrote:

[...]

> The reason I object to Piotr "realized" spelling of the
> 'laryngeals' is that, until *H actually disappears, I do
> not believe it should be able, in the 'laryngeal' model,
> to affect length (certainly) and 'coloring' (possibly).

Length isn't an issue, as Piotr doesn't write e.g. *a:h2 for
phonemic *eh2; he writes *ah2. As for coloring, it clearly
*must* happen while the causative agent is still present.

Brian