From: Robert B Wilson
Message: 15796
Date: 2002-09-30
> applies mutatis mutandis to post-consonantal vowels). But[a] (open *front* unrounded) is not further back than [e] (close-mid
> "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].
> SergeiRobert Wilson (Elentirno Pereldar) (mailto:han_solo55@...)
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