Re: [tied] Stop horsing around

"_Must_ have been"? Why not something like the system we normally find in Indic, where <a:> is an open vowel but short <a> is phonetically a schwa?

Piotr

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From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
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Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Stop horsing around


>
> Piotr:
> >Indo-Iranian short *a was not necessarily fully open, judging from its
> >historical reflexes.
>
> Do you mean it was a schwa? If so, what was *[a]? There must have been
> *[a] in the IIr vowel system.