PIE e/o Ablaut

[proto-language]

Dear Pete and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "petegray" <petegray at btinternet.com>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:14 PM

>> 1) Sanskrit ... is more adequately described as: /a/, /a:/, /e:/, /i/,
>> /i:/, /o:/, /u/, /u:/.

> Sanskrit also had short (!!) [e] and [o] as allophones of /e/ and /o/ before
> a non-elided initial /a/ - according to MacDonell, A Vedic Reader, p20.

[PR]

To my way of thinking, you have described a classic situation of a
conditioned phone [e,o] of /e:,o:/ before initial {a-}.

I am concerned only with the phonemic status of e:, o:.

Pat

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