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  2. From: connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu
  3. Newsgroups: sci.lang
  4. Subject: Re: Tones in PIE?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.121440.5223@memstvx1.memst.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 12:14:40 -0600
  7. References: <1993Jan16.185630.25871@enea.se> <1993Jan17.075558.5069@memstvx1.memst.edu>   <1993Jan26.155215.9787@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Organization: Memphis State University
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  11. In article <1993Jan26.155215.9787@leland.Stanford.EDU>, alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson) writes:
  12.  
  13. [splendid stuff omitted]
  14.  
  15. >  After all, it wasn't until 1925 that Kurylowicz put forth
  16. > convincing evidence that Hittite h and PIE shwa were connected.
  17.  
  18. Wasn't it 1927?  No matter; it was convincing.  What I've never understood
  19. was why towards the end of his life he backed away from these early
  20. findings almost totally, attributing scores of things to analogy that he
  21. had once -- rightly, I think -- connected with laryngeals.
  22.  
  23. --Leo Connolly
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