Three-Way Contrast of Secondary Articulations in PIE

[Rick Mc Callister]

Wouldn't <nert> and <neirt> both be palatalized?

>        The discussion shows more clearly that Thurneysen _believed_ that
>Old Irish had three consonantal qualities than that it did.  As a
>pre-phonemic Neo-Grammarian he felt no need to adduce minimal or even
>near-minimal pairs, and did not do so.  Nonetheless, I have found at least
>one:  "nert" vs. "neirt" vs. "neurt".  The problem is that this, and all the
>other possible cases I have come across, involve /r/, which is more than a
>litle suspect for a distinction that is supposed to have existed "across the
>board".

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701