From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40285
Date: 2005-09-22
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <magwich78@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:52 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their thematic
vowel
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:
>
> > > All well and good, from a descriptive point of view; but is such
> > > an accent retraction *phonologically* realistic?
> >
> > Certainly: Many languages have introduced initial accent (Italic,
> > Germanic, Czech, Irish, ...). That's what this would be.
>
> But IE does not seem to have had regular word-initial accent.
>
> - Rob
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Patrick:
Au contraire. The commonest root form, *CéC-, indicates a predominantly
word-initial stress-accent.
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