Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: PIE initial *a

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58513
Date: 2008-05-15

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From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
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> Patrick:
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> First, I would contend that a change from *a: to *a: is 'phonological' in
> any full sense of the word.

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A change from a: to a: does not look like a change at all.

Cha:rybd or Scylla: ?

Arnaud

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> Second, it is a phonological change that is familiarly
> <em>conditioned</em> just not by the immediate phonological environment as
> usual but rather by the peripheral phonological environment in the form of
> similarly constituted syllables differing semantically.
>
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Do you have a generator of metalinguistic sentences ?

How good was your sleep today ?

I'm eager to look at your third next idea.

Arnaud
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