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==Diachronic sketch== | ==Diachronic sketch== | ||
*q, qʷ > k, kʷ | *q, qʷ > k, kʷ | ||
*a ə i u > e a i u | *a ə i u > e a i u (before laryngeals vocalize) | ||
*root voice assimilation: a plain stop (unless following ''s'') is assimilated to a voiced stop within a root | *root voice assimilation: a plain stop (unless following ''s'') is assimilated to a voiced stop within a root | ||
**"An additional constraint prohibited roots containing both a voiced aspirated and a voiceless plosive (**tebʰ-), unless the latter occurs in a word-initial cluster after an *s (e.g. *stebʰ- 'to stiffen'). Taken together with the abundance of *DʰeDʰ-type roots, it has been proposed that this distribution results from a limited process of voice assimilation in pre-PIE, where a voiceless stop was assimilated to a voiced aspirate, if another one followed or preceded within a root." | **"An additional constraint prohibited roots containing both a voiced aspirated and a voiceless plosive (**tebʰ-), unless the latter occurs in a word-initial cluster after an *s (e.g. *stebʰ- 'to stiffen'). Taken together with the abundance of *DʰeDʰ-type roots, it has been proposed that this distribution results from a limited process of voice assimilation in pre-PIE, where a voiceless stop was assimilated to a voiced aspirate, if another one followed or preceded within a root." | ||