Re: Reasons (was [tied] Re: Some thoughts...)

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 04-10-11 23:44, Sean Whalen wrote:
>
> > 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".

In my derivations, w does cause a-tone to change to
o. In the later changes to vowels, only xj, x, and xv
have effects (they are pronounced in about the same
places i, a, and u are) shifting non-high vowels
closer to them.



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