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

CORRECTION

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: ka and k^a


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: ka and k^a
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> > Patrick to Miguel:
> > > Of course, we do not expect *H1 to 'color' at all.
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> > Good.
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> > 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?
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> > 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:
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> PIE */a/ is a central vowel; lowering */e/ would produce */æ/.
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> > > And, if that is the prevailing view, why would that
> > > be?
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> > By the phonetic nature of *h2 itself. Vowel colouring
> > is similarly accomplished in Arabic and many other
> > languages in this way.
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> > = gLeN
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> Patrick:
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> As I wrote before, there is no vowel coloring in Arabic.
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> There is lowering, and there is rounding, but no fronting or backing,
> which is what vowel coloring means in PIE.
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