From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 55198
Date: 2008-03-15
>pocus'
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:30:16 -0000, "alexandru_mg3"
> <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>
> >This distinction between h1./h2. and h1/h2 is another 'hocus-
> >of Mrs. Olsen, Miguel =>ANYTHING
> >
> > 1. the vocalisation of a kind of /x/ in *ph2te'r CANNOT BE
> >ELSE BUT /Vx/ (by adding a vowel before it /p&x-t'er/)Miguel, in Indo-European? Let's be serious....
>
> You are wrong. Like any other syllabic continuant, it can be
> pronounced with a prop-vowel before, a prop-vowel after, or
> no prop-vowel at all.
>
> The distinction between vocalized and non-vocalizedMiguel we are talking here about ASPIRATION
> layngeals is crucial in other soundlaws as well, like for
> instance Hirt's law in Balto-Slavic, where a consonantal
> laryngeal causes retraction of the stress, but a vocalized
> laryngeal does not.
> >Miguel the Laryngeal wasn't vocalized BEFORE or LATER => It wasMiguel, ("retard" = [Xta:X]) that you quote here is a non-indo-
> >vocalized Since It Was in Existence in order that a Human Being to
> >arrive to pronounce the syllables of ph2ter > something like /p&x-
> >ter/ etc...and that ones of dHugh2ter /dHu-g&x-ter/
>
> Are you implying that the speakers of Bella Coola (Nuxálk)
> are not Human Beings?
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nux%C3%A1lk_language).
>
> Or, for that matter, the French ("retard" = [Xta:X]).
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...