[tied] Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 8:00:54 PM on Monday, July 25, 2005, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> The current dogma among IEists is that palatal and velar
> articulations were occasioned by the presence of e or o
> after the consonant --- in spite of the fact that the
> palatalization or velarization of the consonants persists
> in other phonetic environments.
>
> Examples?

Well I don't know if this is really "current dogma" but one obvious
counterexample is *ok'to meaning eight.