[tied] Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> The most important point is whether the correspondences agree. If a
> pair of reconstructions can be manually transposed from one system to
> the other, then all that is debatable is the phonetics.

This is basically where Occam's Razor comes in. If multiple theories
can explain the data then the simplest one is to be preferred.