Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:30:43 +0000, "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
>Miguel:
>>Actually, that *was* your objection. I quote:
>
>This proves you're off your rocker. I, not you, know best what
>my own objection was, Miguel!

Apparently not.

>I asked you a direct question. You aren't answering it.

I have answered to both objections.

>Please answer the following question and nothing else:
> If Pre-IE *m- causes *a to resist change to *o but *n-
> supposedly allows change, what phonetic phenomenon could
> possibly explain this?

In the first place, I am talking about pPIE /a:/, not /a/.

The phenomenon is nasalization.

Your objection that a: > o(:) but a:~ > a(:) is unjustified and
conjectural is squarely contradicted by Lithuanian *-a:s > -o:s and
-a:m > a:~ > -a:

Your objection that a vowel cannot develop differently in the
neighbourhood of /m/ from how it develops in the neighbourhood of /n/
is directly contradicted by the Romanian examples I gave.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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