From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 15761
Date: 2002-09-28
>--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:Ladefoged & Maddieson (Sounds of the World's Languages, p. 36) describe a study
>> The /a/-vocalism in forms such as *(s)kWalos (Lat. squalus. Eng.
>whale) or
>> *kWasyo-/*kWaslo- (Lat. qua:lum, quasillus; Slav. kos^I) "basket"
>points to *qW.
>>
>
>What are the typological grounds for the statement that uvulars
>trigger a-colouring (and not o-colouring, for instance)? What would
>be a possible (neuro)physiological explanation? Just wondering.