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Issues in the glottalic theory of Indo-European: The comparative method, typology and naturalness [PDF]

open access: yes<i>WORD</i>, 1995
AbstractThe Glottalic Theory of Proto-Indo-European, whereby the traditional voiced series of stops *b, *d, *g has been replaced by the ejectives *p’, *t’, *k’, has been argued for mainly on typological grounds. What I will try to show here is that since any proposed sound change must satisfy the condition of naturalness, every reconstructed segment or
Marc Picard
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The 'whats' and 'whys' of the glottalic theory

open access: yes, 1996
The focus of the present paper is the relatively new hotbed of controversy within lndo-European studies known as the 'Glottalic Theory'. This theory proposes a completely revised look for the Proto-Indo-European obstruent system which has consequently received polaric responses ranging from total respect to caustic rejection, both extremes being based ...
Bailey, Julie A
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Adjarian’s Law, the Glottalic Theory, and the Position of Armenian

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1998
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations (1998)
Garrett, Andrew
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Proto-indo-European ‘eat’ and ‘mouth’ [PDF]

open access: yesJužnoslovenski Filolog, 2019
PIE *h1oʔ-s- (= *h1oh1-s-) ‘mouth’ is derived from PIE *h1ed- ‘to eat’, as an s-stem o-grade postverbal, assuming that *dC yields *ʔC (= *h1C), which is a well-known phenomenon of the Glottalic Theory.
Ligorio Orsat L.
doaj   +1 more source

Glottalization in Nuu-chah-nulth in Optimality Theory [PDF]

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1999
Nootka and Ditidaht (Nuu-chap-nulth), which belong to the Southern Wakashan branch of the Wakashan language family, exhibit complex properties with respect to glottalization. Although they have the same phoneme inventory, these two sister languages have different results in glottalization depending on manners of articulation of the affected consonant ...
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