Re: the sound [a]
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 7, 2004, 16:31 |
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At 16:36 7.5.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Some folks apparently reconstruct
>Proto-Germanic as having the set /i e o u/, but I wouldn't accept a
>reconstruction as evidence here.
In more narrow notation it was probably /i & Q u/,
if that makes you any happier. Moreover short /Q/
probably had an /A/ allophone.
Anyway the status of *a vs. *o and their relations
is problematic in PIE, which carries over into
Germanic, Baltic and Slavic. I have a neat solution,
but won't divulge it at this point.
/BP 8^)
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