Re: Critique sought
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 18, 1999, 23:21 |
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Paul Bennett wrote:
> I'm a bit out of my depth here, but doesn't PIE have a two-vowel system with /E/
> and /O/? (or is it /e/ and /o/?)
One theory has it that PIE had /e/ and /o/, with [i] and [u] as
allophones of /j/ and /w/. Since [i] and [u] were already "taken",
that's why the vowel phonemes were /e/ and /o/.
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