implosives

Now, while Glottalic Theory explains that PIE's purported ejectives had mostly eroded into implosives or "preglottalized" phonemes in almost all dialects without explaining why exactly voiced *d was the overwhelmingly typical end result, my Hybrid Theory position has been that these stops were already voiced in PIE.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

His reinterpretation of Winter's Law was that the implosives somehow developed a glottal stop segment preceding a plain voiced stop.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

Now, while Glottalic Theory explains that PIE's purported ejectives had mostly eroded into implosives or "preglottalized" phonemes in almost all dialects without explaining why exactly voiced *d was the overwhelmingly typical end result, my Hybrid Theory position has been that these stops were already voiced in PIE.

Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008

At least one IE language, Sindhi, has implosives fwiw.

Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 1 2008

His reinterpretation of Winter's Law was that the implosives somehow developed a glottal stop segment preceding a plain voiced stop.

Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 1 2008

1 Kortlandt, Baltica & Balto-Slavica (2009), p.68 (see link): "In my view, the original PIE ejectives developed into implosives in all branches except Anatolian and Tocharian, and show traces of glottalization and/or partial merger with the laryngeals in Germanic, Italic, Greek, Armenian, Indo-Iranian, and Balto-Slavic."

Against the *dkmtóm camp 2010