labialization

• “To me, *h3 was ultimately born from the era of Indo-Aegean Centralization when the feature of labialization was transferred to the neighbouring consonant, including *h.”

  Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document

• “Maybe to add further, even without concommitant labialization, I don't think it's impossible that a pharyngeal to MIE ears would appear to have a +back acoustic quality, the same quality as their *w which may be one of the closest approximations they could make.”

  The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze"

• “Word-final labialization was neutralized after Syncope, hence there were no instances in PIE, nor could there be, of suffixes like **-gʷ or **-hʷ **-h₃.”

  Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions

• “However, since Centralization and the concommitant transfer of labialization from the vowel to the neighbouring consonant is naturally heavily dependant on vocalism, I would have to oppose i-umlaut at the Proto-Steppe stage unless you can find a different formulation of Centralization that works to explain the rise of labialized consonants in PIE.”

  Updating my Pre-IE pdf (already!)

• “The other however generates a glottalic velar plus obvious labialization.”

  A list of possible Proto-Semitic loanwords in PIE

• “So what I'm suggesting is what I like to call "disassociated labialization", or rather labialization remaining as residue a while after the phoneme to which its attached has eroded to null.”

  PIE Uvulars: A revised solution of their origin

• “At that point, palatalization and labialization could be understood as consonantal features.”

  The Great Pre-IE Centralization

• “Either the labialization was absorbed there or the bilabial stops were lenited.”

  The Great Pre-IE Centralization

• “This might be called anticipatory labialization because you're anticipating the next sound, so subconsciously you begin to round your lips ahead of schedule.”

  The Great Pre-IE Centralization

• “In AbAd, palatalization (the act of pronouncing something with an added "y"-like quality) and labialization (the act of pronouncing something with an added "w"-like quality) are standard features in their sound systems.”

  Archive 2007-12-01

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