Re: Vowellessness... grunty?
| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 12, 1999, 22:07 |
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Edward Heil wrote:
> Similarly, in very early PIE, you still had syllable nuclei ("vowels") in the
> words, but the quality and to some degree the location of those vowels were
> not tied to the roots. They showed up in pronunciation in various ways (that
Ah! So there were sounds used that had vowel quality, but they were
either non-phonemic or weakly phonemic (my money would be on the latter).