From: tgpedersen
Message: 34609
Date: 2004-10-12
> On 04-10-11 23:44, Sean Whalen wrote:Do you have a reference?
>
> > Well, no stops have any effect on all vowels. It's
> > possible the round feature is at the end of the sound
> > and stops block the feature from spreading.
>
> But PIE *w, the very essence of labiality, has no rounding effect
> either. As for stops having no colouring effect, see Schrijver's
> research into the A-colouring effect of "plain velars".
>