Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]

From: glen gordon
Message: 39892
Date: 2005-09-08

Lars:
> This makes sense provided that your h1 = glottal
> stop. That is what you mean, don't you?

Not necessarily, but I can't say no to that
possibility. Personally I think that *h1 was medially
plain /h/ in IE. Think of the /h/ as a lazy glottal
stop :)

You don't necessarily need a glottal stop to seperate
two vowels in many languages. In some varieties of
English, retroflex-r is used where final -r has been
historically lost. In French, inserting otherwise lost
final sounds of any sort often does the trick
(eg: "trop apparent" /tRo-p-apaRa~/).


= gLeN



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