[tied] Re: Non-correspondence of voiceless stops in several IE lang

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

> > Thank you, Peter. What about the change of kw to t in Greek and

Slavic

> > (Greek pente, Slavic pet''). Any ideas?
>
> Mycenaean Greek shows /q/ for kw in all cases. This means that
> any later changes are internal to Greek, and if they also occur
> elsewhere, that is coincidence.
> Most later Greek dialects show:
> kW > t before a front vowel (hence pente < penkWe)
> but kW > p elsewhere, occasionally k
> Similarly, *gW > d or b or g, gWH > th or ph or kh
>
> I can't give details about Slavic, but I do know the change *kW > t
> is not regular there. There's a later process by which this has
> happened in this word.
>
> Peter

which is the common view regarding the phonetic change of "kW" to "t"
in Greek? To me it seems that this could happen just via an altered
sound as "c^" since the confusion cy/ty appears in more language. The
micean "q" have had the value appropiate of "k" or of "c^"?


Alex