Proto-Indo-European laryngeals survived as consonants only in Anatolian languages but left plenty of traces of their former presence ( see laryngeal theory ).
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Modern versions incorporating the laryngeal theory, however, tend to view these vowels as later developments of sounds that should be reconstructed in PIE as laryngeals.
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This led to the so-called laryngeal theory, a major step forward in Indo-European linguistics and a confirmation of de Saussure's theory.
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Pedersen endorsed the laryngeal theory ( 1893 : 292 ) at a time when it " was regarded as an eccentric fancy of outsiders " ( Szemer�nyi 1996 : 123 ).
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Historically PIE Lexicon continues the comparative tradition of Indo-European linguistics, which is often contrasted to the laryngeal theory, attempting to offer a more regular account of PIE ablaut.
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Laryngeal theory can explain this behaviour by reconstructing a laryngeal following the vowel (,,, resulting in a long vowel ) or preceding it (,,, resulting in a short vowel ).
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Eventually, " schwa indogermanicum " was radically reinterpreted as the reflexe of the syllabic " laryngeals " ( consonants ), and what is now known as the laryngeal theory was developing into its current form.
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As was the case with the laryngeal theory, these cognate sets were first noted prior to the connection of Anatolian and Tocharian to PIE, and early reconstructions posited a new series of consonants to explain these correspondences.
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A / s / phoneme is the only fricative we are sure that the Proto-Indo-European language possessed, although the laryngeal theory has variations that assume an / h / or other fricative like sound.
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Notably, the laryngeal theory, in its early forms barely noticed except as a clever analysis, became mainstream after the 1927 discovery by Jerzy KuryBowicz of the survival of at least some of these hypothetical phonemes in Anatolian.
