Re: H3 (was Re: [tied] IE *p and *b)

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From: stlatos

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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 5:38 AM

Subject: H3 (was Re: [tied] IE *p and *b)

> I've never understood identifying H3 with xW. If w, kW, gW, and gWH
> aren't o-coloring, then why should xW be o-coloring?
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A.F

In the first place, there is no reason to think that H3 should be /xw/.

There are more proto-phonemes becoming H3 than just /xw/.

But it does not change the answer to your question.

 

Now, as far as I am concerned (and as far as I understand this issue)

your question is related to the phonological status of weak unstressed vowel [°] known as *schwa*.

 

kw, gw, ghw plus schwa is ku, gu, ghu,

on pure phonetic grounds.

The result might be affected by morphological leveling.

 

° plus H3 surfaces as unstressed [o] (in a language such as Greek).

Hence

kw e/o/° is kwe/kwo/ku

but

e/o/° + H3 is o:/o:/o.

Phonologically, it is not the same.

The result of H3 + e/o/°  is we/wo/u

 

Arnaud

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