Re: *a/*a: ablaut

my opinion is that prior to the

> development of ablaut PIE had two non-high vowel phonemes with the
> approximate values *& (mid) and *a (low). The former became the "ablaut"
> vowel *e/*o, the latter became *a/*a: (merging with those instances of
> *e that got a-coloured).
>
> Piotr
>

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ok
well understood.

I must say that I disagree with
1. e and o are the same phoneme
2. a is contrastive with e

whether it be in PIE or anything prior to PIE

We are currently discussing point 2.

Arnaud

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