Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

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From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:36 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels


> To be sure, but an intuitive one: A for Ablaut. In any case it seems
> to me there is a need for a symbol to represent this vowel. Would
> you like to propose an alternative?

Lower case 'e' is conventionally used.

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Patrick:

I would like to apologize for not making clear what I meant by *A.

*A is not meant to be a replacement for any laryngeal notation: *h OR *?, in
any grade of Ablaut.

It is meant only to indicate the vowel of the one-vowel stage (which might
have been /a/ or might have been /something else/) which, according to
fluctuations in the stress-accent, _later_ appears as *é, *o (an *é from
which the stress-accent has been removed), and *Ø.

One we get to the stage which we normally reconstruct, simple *e, *o, or *Ø
suffices.


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