... To repeat myself, root "constraints" are only tendencies, not rigid inviolable rules. There are 9 fairly certain roots of the form DeD in PIE: *bed to...
... The classic puzzle, of course, is why English shows so few signs (or no signs) of a Celtic substrate. The classic answer used to be that the Celts were...
... That should go almost without saying, especially if the constraint was the consequence of some special phonetic properties of pre-PIE rather tha PIE itself...
... A phoneme like *NgW (or is it *n,W ?) has a lot of interesting properties. It's [+nasal, +velar, +labial] which is nice for something one wants to use for...
... Or the reduplicated root arose at a time where it was still either *'gWí-'gW-a- (preglottalized) -> *'gW-íh3w-a- or *NgWí-NgW-a- (prenasalized) ->...
... From: Piotr Gasiorowski<mailto:gpiotr@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:20 PM...
... No. I certainly wouldn't dispute them myself. In fact, just out of curiosity I have managed to replicate them with satisfactory accuracy using recordings...
... If you want a short answer, they don't. Skt. dHarma(n)- is derived from dHarati 'hold, support', which contains PIE *dHer-. The Gk. stem tHemist- (with a...
... From: Piotr Gasiorowski<mailto:gpiotr@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:18 AM...
... For English, "voiced obstruent" would be better. English vowels are longest before voiced fricatives, then before voiced stops. If you decide to experiment...
... From: Patrick Ryan<mailto:proto-language@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:35 PM ...
... Yes. "Final" means "word-final" (not necessarily in a monosyllable, but also in words like <degree> or <guffaw>. Intervocalic consonants affect the...
At 4:47:39 PM on Monday, October 2, 2006, Piotr Gasiorowski ... Patrick said 'not stressed', so I assume that he's using one of the U.S. pronunciations of...
... From: Piotr Gasiorowski<mailto:gpiotr@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:47 PM ...
... Oops, I overlooked the "not stressed" part. Of course, this is one of the well-known accentual differences between UK and US English (only the latter is...
... That's the whole problem. In Wiik's data sets, the alternative "final or + voiced C" really means "+ voiced C" for inherently short vowels, since they...
... From: Piotr Gasiorowski<mailto:gpiotr@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 5:19 PM ...
... From: Piotr Gasiorowski<mailto:gpiotr@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 5:13 PM ...
... Not really. In the book, and generally in phonetic terminology, the default interpretation of "final" means "word-final", not "syllable final". I admit,...
... I meant the following passage, suggesting that the pre-sonorant quantity was average and therefore "normal". ... But this is hardly a useful standard...
