Re: [tied] Abstractness (Was Re: [j] v. [i])

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 22701
Date: 2003-06-05

Piotr:
>A phonologically plausible scenario could be as follows: an original
>(pre-PIE) triangular inventory, /i, a, u/, developed into a square
>inventory, /i, E, O, u/

Hmm, I don't like that theory. For me to explain why there is *k
versus *q, I need to have one distinctively low vowel set apart
from the rest. Is this a common vowel system? Is it more common
than a centralized system of /I, &, a/?


= gLeN

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