Re: [tied] How to prepare **udon soup (was: PIE rhotacism)

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:01:57, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>>>So, *a: becomes *o only when you feel like it, Miguel?!
>>
>>No. Only in tonic (uda:tta) and posttonic (svarita) position. When
>>unstressed (anuda:tta), *a: > *a (but *a > 0).
>
>Aaah. And this somehow makes sense? I fail to see what credible
>motivations cause the changes you prescribe. How can these differing
>vowel positions possibly effect fronting on the one hand and
>labialisation on the other? Are there direct, real-world examples
>of these changes?

I could obviously give hundreds of examples. Will English do?

1) á: > ó, happened in English.
2) á > æ, happened in English.
3) deletion of unstressed short vowels, happened in English.
4) shortening of unstressed long vowels, happened in English.
5) effects of secondary stress in post-tonic syllables, happened in
English.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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