----- Original Message -----From: tgpedersenSent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:53 PMSubject: [tied] Re: Origins of Indo-European, and naturalness of laryngeals
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> I did not claim that at all.
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> I was trying to express that the original formulators of the
coloring theory proposed gutturals, which _they_ called "laryngeals" ,
since they were under the misapprehension that _gutturals_ could
'color' vowels.
It was Møller who added a third one to Saussure's vowel-coloring
"coefficients sonantiques" and called them all laryngeals, after
the fashion of Assyrian, in which language the laryngeals have
disappeared after coloring the neighboring vowels. He doesn't
use the term 'guttural'.
***I have to say that I am a little disappointed to see that yet another respondent does not seem to recognize the difference between laryngals and pharyngals, both of which can be termed gutturals.
The pharyngals are [h.] and [¿]; the laryngals are [h] and [?].
Why do you not give us an example or two of _any of them_ 'coloring' a preceding vowel in Akkadian?
Patrick
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