Re[2]: [tied] Latin -idus as from dH- too

At 9:30:16 PM on Friday, March 14, 2008, alexandru_mg3
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> <miguelc@...> wrote:

[...]

>> In Olsen's formulation, the "pre-aspirating" effect of
>> *h1 and *h2 applies only to the consonantal
>> (non-vocalized) allophones.

> This distinction between h1./h2. and h1/h2 is another
> 'hocus-pocus' of Mrs. Olsen, Miguel =>

> 1. the vocalisation of a kind of /x/ in *ph2te'r CANNOT BE
> ANYTHING ELSE BUT /Vx/ (by adding a vowel before it
> /p&x-t'er/)

> 2. If you can vocalized in any other way an /x/ -> be the
> guest of Mrs. Olsen but not one of mine

If *h2 was something like [x] or [X], I don't see why *&2
couldn't have been something like IPA turned-a; it's
happened to German post-vocalic /r/ in some varieties.

Brian