Re: Voiced aspirated plosives (was: phonetic)

Jorg Rhiemeier wrote:

> Ray Brown wrote:
>
> > What is the present state of play, so
> > to speak, regarding the PIE 'voiced aspirated' plosives?
>
> The present state of play is that many (though by far not all)
> Indo-Europeanists favour "glottal theory", according to which the
> stops traditionally reconstructed as voiced (*b, *d, *g, *gW) were
> glottalized stops, and the traditional voiced aspirates were simply
> voiced.  I think this makes sense
To stir the List up for more ontopicness and to show that I'm still here
(just busy with guests in our home: my sister-in-law and her husband came to
visit us for a week!), I'd add that this theory was suggested by
T.V.Gamkrelidze and Vyach.Vs.Ivanov in 1972 (later expanded and illustrated
by ample material in their book "Индоевропейский язык и
индоевропейцы.
Реконструкция и историко-типологический анализ праязыка
и протокультуры."
Tbilisi, 1984), and, independently, by P.J.Hopper in 1973. Read his article
in "Glossa. An International Journal of Linguistics", 1973, v.7, No.2.
Aspirated plosives are postulated allophones for pure plosives according to
Grassman's law.

-- Yitzik