Re: *a/*a: ablaut

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From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: *a/*a: ablaut


> >From: cybalist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com] On
> >Behalf
> Of fournet.arnaud
>>Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:49 PM
>
>>It's anti-phonological to suppose that
>>unstressed vowels can be long
>>while stressed are short.
>
> Lithuanian speakers have probably forgotten to ask :)
>
> Sergei
>
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You also have long stressed vowels.
And short unstressed ones.

We're talking about a modelisation of PIE
where unstressed vowels are only long
while stressed ones are only short.
I don't buy this.

Arnaud
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