PIE e/o Ablaut

[proto-language]

Dear Rich and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard M. Alderson III" <alderson at netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:05 AM

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Pat Ryan (proto-language at email.msn.com) wrote:

>> I am under the impression that a consistent explanation ofIE /o/ has been
>> formulated: namely, that /e'/ becomes /o/ when the stress-accent is
>> transferred to another syllable.

[RA]

> The *pitch* accent, not the *stress* accent, at least if you are having
> recourse to Lehmann's theory of the vowel system.

[PR]
Correction accepted. Although, as we all know, the relationship of stress-
and tone-accents is gnarled.

Pat

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