Typology and the phonetics of laryngeals

petegray petegray at btinternet.com
Fri Apr 21 17:06:54 UTC 2000


Jens said:
>I believe the facts of IE are plain in themselves ... A voiced value of
>/H3/ is demanded by *pi'be/o- 'drink';

Steady on!   This word is far from clear, and is, I believe, the only
evidence for voicing in H3.  Can we really construct our theories on one
isolated unclear word?

Peter



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