Re: [tied] Re: ka and k^a

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From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: ka and k^a


> Patrick to Miguel:
> > Of course, we do not expect *H1 to 'color' at all.
>
> Good.
>
>
> Patrick to Miguel:
> > But, since you follow these matters more closely
> > than I, is the prevailing theory at this moment
> > that *H2 does not color *o when before or after it?
>
> It's been the prevailing theory for quite some time
> that *h2 does not colour *o. It only colours *e to
> *a, evidently by lowering it.

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Patrick:

PIE */a/ is a central vowel; lowering it would produce */æ/.

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>
> > And, if that is the prevailing view, why would that
> > be?
>
> By the phonetic nature of *h2 itself. Vowel colouring
> is similarly accomplished in Arabic and many other
> languages in this way.
>
>
> = gLeN
>

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Patrick:

As I wrote before, there is no vowel coloring in Arabic.

There is lowering, and there is rounding, but no fronting or backing, which
is what vowel coloring means in PIE.

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