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