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The Anatolian stop system and the indo-hittite hypothesis-revisited

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Simon, Zsolt

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This paper argues that Alwin Kloekhorst’s arguments against the traditional voiced/voiceless contrast in Anatolian stops are not probative and none of his arguments necessarily require a contrast in length. Moreover, transcriptions and loanwords from half a dozen languages (neglected by Kloekhorst) unequivocally and unambiguously show that Hittite and Luwian stops were always perceived as either voiceless or voiced and never as geminates, pace H.C. Melchert and A. Kloekhorst. In other words, there is no reason to assume that the contrast in Anatolian stops was one of length, and consequently the contrast in voice is neither a shared innovation nor a defining feature of the non-Anatolian Indo-European languages (pace A. Kloekhorst).

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Anthropology, Archaeology, Language, Linguistics

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Dispersals and Diversification: Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on The Early Stages of Indo-European

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10.1163/9789004416192_013

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