Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:31:20 -0500, Patrick Ryan
<proto-language@...> wrote:

> I agree completely except I think we started out with *e, *a, and *o +*H (undifferentiated). But the result of the combination of a vowel and a 'laryngeal' resulted in long (double length) vowels.
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> You then say: "These then developed in the normal way in the daughter languages."
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> Again I agree completely.
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> Zero-grade involved the removal of one vowel: *men- + *tó = *mNtó
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> Zero-grade with the removal of one vowel from *dhe:- /dHee/, *sta:- /staa/, and *do:- /doo/ leaves *dhe-, *sta-, and *do-.

There: you're saying it again.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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