Des Questions Controversées De Phonétique Indo-Européenne

• Authors: Leszek Bednarczuk
• Languages of publication: FR

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The aim of my paper is the discussion of the three hypothesis concerning Proto-Indo-European consonant system from the typological point of view: (1) Glottalic hypothesis – with excessively complicated consonant model: glottalized voiceless stops – voiceless stops (aspirated / non-aspirated) – voiced stops (aspirated / non-aspirated) and not clear distribution of its facultative variants (aspirated / non-aspirated). (2) Simplified model of the guttural consonants (two or even one series) in the presence of traditional three series (velars – labiovelars – palatovelars) owing to its recessive character. (3) The laryngeal theory, now generally accepted – its contemporary version with three consonantal H, which in certain position underwent vocalization. It seems more probable that it was a sonant ə/ə̭ (parallel to i / i̭, u / ṷ), which as sonant ə had changed in Indo-Iranian into i, whereas in other languages into short a. While as glide ə it had been transformed into laryngeal attested in Hittite as h̬ (h̬h̬), whereas in other Indo-European languages it disappeared as linear phone.

• Publisher: Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk
• Journal: Lingua Posnaniensis
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 50
• Pages: 23-36

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Leszek Bednarczuk