Re: Introducing myself to the list
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Saturday, June 17, 2000, 2:52 |
Danny Wier wrote:
> where
> the Neogrammarians (the traditional reconstructionists) had p/b/bh, t/d/dh
> etc. (the 'Sanskrit model'), Gamqrelidze and Ivanov have promoted an
> alternative theory where the stop system is p/p'/b, t/t'/d, where C' is an
> ejective
One variant proposed that the ejectives had implosive allophones,
explaining why they became b/d/g in many IE langs.
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