Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 53084
Date: 2008-02-14

Not everyone here talks like a hick.

Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] 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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