The laryngeal theory is a theory in historical linguistics positing that the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language included a number of laryngeal consonants...
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Ferdinand de Saussure (section Laryngeal theory)
Proto-Indo-European language vocalic system and particularly his theory of laryngeals, otherwise unattested at the time, bore fruit and found confirmation...
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Look up laryngeal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Laryngeal may refer to: Laryngeal consonant, in phonetics Laryngeal theory of the Proto-Indo-European...
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vocal tract, such as Arabic 'emphatics' and Korean 'tense' consonants. Laryngeal theory (in Proto-Indo-European phonology) Place of articulation Index of phonetics...
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Proto-Indo-European phonology (section Laryngeals)
incorporating the laryngeal theory, however, tend to view these vowels as later developments of sequences involving the PIE laryngeal consonants *h₁, *h₂...
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led to the so-called laryngeal theory, a major step forward in Indo-European linguistics and a confirmation of de Saussure's theory.[citation needed] The...
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discovered, the presence of laryngeal consonants ḫ and ḫḫ in Hittite and Luwian provided support for the laryngeal theory of Proto-Indo-European linguistics...
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Hermann Möller (section The laryngeal theory)
Indo-European and Semitic language families and his version of the laryngeal theory. Möller grew up in North Frisia after its conquest by Germany in the...
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preserved two of the laryngeal consonants as discreet phonemes. This discovery led to the widespread acceptance of laryngeal theory. In the field of neuroscience...
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Indo-Aryan migrations (redirect from Aryan Invasion Theory)
languages and the acceptance of the laryngeal theory. The Anatolian languages have also spurred a major re-evaluation of theories concerning the development of...
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Jerzy Kuryłowicz (section Laryngeals)
Ferdinand de Saussure, thereby offering first direct evidence for the laryngeal theory. Born in Stanisławów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankivsk...
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of the concept of "consonantal schwa" (which later evolved into the laryngeal theory) may be considered the beginning of "contemporary" Indo-European studies...
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Indo-European and Semitic languages and for his contributions to the laryngeal theory. He was a student of the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet (Faral...
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descendant languages. A subtle new principle won wide acceptance: the laryngeal theory, which explained irregularities in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European...
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Paradigm shift (redirect from Open system (system theory))
laryngeal theory in Indo-European linguistics postulated the existence of "laryngeal" consonants in the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), a theory that...
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Indian mythology, though he contributed significantly to research of laryngeal theory and the Munda languages as well. Kuiper's most notable contributions...
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explaining previously known phenomena, which lends the theory empirical support. (Similarly, the laryngeal theory was proposed before direct evidence in Anatolian...
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Pokorny. It was the first dictionary fully utilizing the modern three-laryngeal theory with reconstructions of Indo-European verbal roots. The authors of...
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occurring in Baltic and Slavic languages (1933a). Pedersen endorsed the laryngeal theory (1893:292) at a time when it "was regarded as an eccentric fancy of...
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the preceding syllable, if that syllable ended in a laryngeal (*h₁, *h₂, *h₃, see Laryngeal theory). A high vowel is inserted before PIE syllabic sonorants...
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since the early 20th century, since the advent of Proto-Indo-European laryngeal theory, the 'wool' word has been reconstructed as *h2wĺ̥h1neh2. The Proto-Indo-European...
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formed with a suffix *ieh or *ih (containing sounds as explained by laryngeal theory). It expressed wishes or hopes. In Indo-European, the subjunctive was...
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"*h₂", "ḫ" is believed to descend from "*h₃" as well according to the laryngeal theory. In Proto-Indo-European, "*h₂" is known for coloring *e to *a. It has...
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was conservative even when it was written, ignoring the now integral laryngeal theory, and hardly including any Anatolian material. A. Francke, 1st ed. (1959)...
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framework of "classical" Proto-Indo-European laryngeal theory, as there is no obvious connection between laryngeals and voiced stops, both of which trigger...
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Anatolia, otherwise considered the cradle of agriculture, and the laryngeal theory that hypothesizes the existence of one or more additional spirant or...
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Pre-Greek substrate (section Kartvelian theory)
much, especially in the last thirty years (notably because of the laryngeal theory) that in some cases we can say almost with certainty that an Indo-European...
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Nostratic languages (redirect from Nostratic theory)
linguist Albert Cuny—better known for his role in the development of the laryngeal theory—who published his Recherches sur le vocalisme, le consonantisme et...
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approximant, as the English 'r'. A historically-important example is the laryngeal theory, which states that long vowels in the Indo-European languages were...
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language." The decipherment famously led to the confirmation of the laryngeal theory in Indo-European linguistics, which had been predicted several decades...
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