Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Wouldn't that be more like /@n neypL/ in your neck of
the woods? :>


--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> Unfortunately, only careful people use the initial
> glottal stop in my
> experience.
>
> I hear more frequently /æn næpL/.
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary
> checklist
>
>
> > That's interesting to hear --a few years back when
> I
> > asked whether or not Gmc glottal stop was a relic
> of
> > laryngeals, everyone told me no
> > English, of course, still has glottal stops e.g.
> an
> > apple /?aen ?aepL/
> >
> > --- Richard Wordingham
> <richard@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick
> McCallister
> > > <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > If so, was there a stage when Gmc had
> laryngeals?
> > >
> > > Will a single one do? German has merged initial
> > > laryngeals to a
> > > glottal stop, as had Old English.
> > >
> > > Richard.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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