From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58479
Date: 2008-05-14
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> Patrick:
>
> I am citing Pokorny's reconstructions. Take it up with his spirit.
> I have explained, over and over, that pre-PIE had four pure vowels:
>
> *e:, *a:, *o:, *A
>
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You are the only one who could ever believe this makes four pure vowels.
Actually, I can see only three : e o a with short/length contrast.
You cannot fuse short (Pok) *e and short (Pok) *o under one grapheme.
You need two vowels.
Arnaud
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> PIE *a, as I also have explained at least a dozen times, results from a
> shortening of *a: due to the Law of Phonological Entropy; and that pre-PIE
> unlengthened *a was _not_ preserved.
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your own mother tongue refutes your Law of Entropy.
Th stands for both tdh voiced and tth unvoiced.
There is no minimal pair for this contrast between tdh and tth
but tdh has not disappeared.
The idea that a long a: could become short
while there still are long vowels in the system does not make sense.
Arnaud
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> You will never subscribe to my Theory but at least, try to understand it,
> will you?
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It would be easier if you describe your theory clearly.
Arnaud