Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

From: "Rob Haden" <magwich78@...>
> My point was not to deny the existence of laryngeals entirely.  I certainly
> think that 'laryngeals' existed in PIE; what frustrates me is that
> seemingly no attempt is made to figure out exactly what they are.  Instead,
> they seem to be just accepted as these 'mystery phonemes' that have certain
> alleged effects.  What I'd like to see is some genuine, honest debate as to
> what the actual 'laryngeals' were.
Ok.
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~bkessler/PIE-laryngeals/laryngeals.ps.gz

For most researchers the exact phonetics of laryngeals are basically irrelevant,
the more relevant point being their effects, which are known, and their
correspodences in various daughter languages, AFAICT.



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