From: P&G
Message: 33046
Date: 2004-06-03
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From: <enlil@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:46 PM
>I will indirectly
> quote the sensible Alexis Ramer's own words via Marc Hamann's account
> of them whilst pretending it was my own amidst the confusion :P
Amid the confusion, I think you misunderstood what he's saying. He's saying
you can't analyse Hebrew or Arabic as monovocalic, not that you can! (Text
follows)
Peter
> "'(a) the so-called monovocalic hypothesis treats */e/ and */o/ as
> variants of the same MORPHOphoneme (i.e., the same UNDERLYING
> segment), not the same PHONEME, in PIE, and to count these two
> as one phoneme would be like counting all the vowels of Hebrew
> or Arabic as one phoneme, [...]'"
>
> Precisely. Or English for that matter. So maybe /u/ in 'run' and /a/
> in 'ran' are the same vowel!