On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:43:48 -0500, Crystal Odenkirk
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crys@...> wrote:
>I'll have to sift through the archives then, perhaps tomorrow or this
>weekend, and see what I can come up with. Maybe, since I'm compiling it for
>myself anyway, I'll post it here at some point to make sure I've got them
>right and then put it in the "Files". There are a lot of archives though so
>I'm sure it'll take a while...
>
>So far there's really only one symbol that I'm unfamiliar with as a sound
>though. What does the 2 represent when it's within an IE word? And am I
>correct that &=schwa?
The inevntory of PIE sounds is not that large:
Stops:
*p, *b (rare), *bh. Piotr writes *bH, to mark the fact that
<h> is here not a separate phoneme, but serves to modify <b>
[*bH is aspirated b]. I write *bh because there's usually
no confusion possible (there is no phoneme /h/).
Similarly:
dentals: *t *d *dH
velars/uvulars: *k *g *gH
palatals/velars: *k^ *g^ *g^H (some people use *k', *g',
*g'h)
labio-velars: *kW, *gW, *gWH (or is it *gHW?). W is here a
labialization modifier, and there _is_ the possibility of
confusion with /w/).
Fricatives:
*s
*h1 *h2 *h3 (laryngeals). Also written H1, H2, H3.
Unspecified laryngeal *H.
Sonorants:
*m *n *l *r *w *y
Syllabic sonorants/laryngeals:
*m. *n. *l. *r. *i *u *&1 *&2 *&3 *& (unspecified). Yes,
/&/ is schwa (you can't use @ on yahoogroups).
Vowels:
*a (rare), *e, *o, *a:(very rare), *e:, *o:. <:> is the
length mark.
There probably were no long syllabic sonorants (*i:, *u:,
*r.:, *l.:, *m.:, *n.:), these were just *i *u etc. followed
by a laryngeal. Of course they're valid as "post-laryngeal"
notations.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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