[tied] Re: ka and k^a

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> I meant, of course:
>
>
> The idea that laryngeals 'color' vowels to *a and to *o is, by itself,
> totally ridiculous.

How so? In Arabic laryngeals color vowels, and can disappear with
compensatory lenghthening.