Torsten:
>*/e/? So I-I has */a/ > */e/ > */a/ and */a:/ > */o/ > */a/ ? BTW,
>isn't <&> in itself front enough to cause palatalization (the fact of
>which I haven't disputed)?
Oh Torsten. You need to take a phonetics course. A schwa is _mid_ (not
front like [E] as in "pet" nor back like [O] as in "pour") and _central_
(not high like [i] nor low like [u]). It is completely non-peripheral. It
is not "front" in any way, otherwise it wouldn't be a schwa!
However, there is a tendency, I suppose, for an accented schwa to front.
That's a different matter and something that I believe affected Mid to Late
IE, not Common IE itself.
- love gLeN
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