Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]

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

> At 6:48:06 PM on Thursday, September 22, 2005, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> > But no one claimed the foreignness of PIE *a was a priori.
> > It's a contingent fact, derived from the absence of native
> > PIE *a (other than in the context -ka-, -h2a- etc) after
> > pre-PIE *a -> {/e/, /o/, zero}. And apart from loans and a
> > few native words, English has a vowel system without it.
>
> Whose English? In General American it's one of the more
> common phonemes, though it's very often spelled <o>; it more
> or less combines RP /A:/ and /A./. In Scottish Standard
> English it's also common, combining RP /A:/ and /æ/.
>

Alright already! The kind of foreigner English I speak.


Torsten