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Re: Consonants as source of vowels

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Friday, January 14, 2005, 0:06
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:37:03 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

> In order to achieve part of this, I thought that for each of the three > interesting vowels, /a, i, u/ and possibly for /@/, too, I should find > one or two corresponding consonants for each one. In certain > phonological contexts, the vowel will appear, on others, the > consonant, and yet in others, the consonant will generate interesting > mutations in clusters.
Gah! Looks like PIE laryngeals. Could get tricky. Have fun! Paul