On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:51:18 -0000 "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> writes:

> applies mutatis mutandis to post-consonantal vowels). But
> "hardening"
> is not that causes [e] ->[a], at least my language intuition says
> that when "hardened" [e] is lowered (as in Russian) or shifted one
> step back to become mid-central vowel (resembling Russian [y] in
> _mylo_) as in some High Lithuanian dialects, but not lowered 2 steps
>
> and shifted back 1-2 steps to become some kind of [a].

[a] (open *front* unrounded) is not further back than [e] (close-mid
*front* unrounded). lowered and shifted back would be [A].

> Sergei

Robert Wilson (Elentirno Pereldar) (mailto:han_solo55@...)

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I yessess� Eru ontan� Menel ar Cemen.
I yessess� �a Quetta ar Quetta n� as Eru ar Eru n� Quetta.
"Ananwa," eque erye, "i il�v� n� carm� Eruva. Ily� nati nar tanwi
Erullo."


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