Alex:
>But here all these changes request a front vowel as /e/, /i/, /j/ for
>alowing that. Thus, this is why I wondered about PIE /*k^/and /*g^/ if they
>could have a kind of "apendices" which allowed theses
>changes.
Erh... hunh?? Somebody drastically needs a course in Phonology 101.
It's really simple, Alex. This *k^ (at least when speaking of satem
dialects) is a palatal counterpart to labial *kW. We don't need any
of your crazy "appendices". Don't add problems where there are
none. Labial *kW is merely *k with rounding. Likewise, all *k^ is
meant to be is a *k with patalization (raising of the middle part of
the tongue as if to say English "y"). This is different from a sound
sequence *ky because the *k and the patalization occur
_simultaneously_ just as the rounding occurs simultaneously with
*k in *kW.
So [kW] is not [k] + [w] and [k^] is not [k] + [j]. Obviously
there was a difference between *kW, *k^w and *kw in IE,
otherwise we all wouldn't get so irate with you when you goof
up on the notation.
= gLeN
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