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    characters. The laryngeal theory is a theory in historical linguistics positing that the Proto-Indo-European language included a number of laryngeal consonants...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • consonants (as reconstructed both before and after the acceptance of laryngeal theory), and their reflexes in selected Indo-European daughter languages....
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  • represent fully the laryngeal theory in his version of the fable. Judging from the text, he seems to assume four different laryngeal phonemes. Consequently...
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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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  • 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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  • Spasmodic dysphonia, also known as laryngeal dystonia, is a disorder in which the muscles that generate a person's voice go into periods of spasm. This...
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    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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  • [h] from /x/, which as of now is stable. It is hypothesized in the laryngeal theory that the loss of [h] or similar sounds played a role in the early development...
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  • languages - Language game - The Language Instinct - Language isolate - Laryngeal theory - Lateral consonant - Lemma - Lexeme - Lexical semantics - Lexicography...
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  • 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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  • eat', *aǵ- 'to drive', *od- 'to smell'). Laryngeal theory can explain this behaviour by reconstructing a laryngeal following the vowel (*dʰeh₁-, *bʰweh₂-...
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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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    pharyngeals elsewhere, as in: Indo-European languages: According to the laryngeal theory, Proto-Indo-European might have had pharyngeal consonants. Indo-Iranian:...
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