:: Wasn't there also an extreme version of the laryngeal theory claiming that the only Proto-Indo-European vowel phoneme was * e ? J . 10 : 10, 24 July 2009 ( UTC)
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The explanation for the " h�eros / h�aros " business has long been discussed, without much result; laryngeal theory now provides the opportunity for an explanation which did not exist before, namely metathesis of the two laryngeals.
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In Oswald Szemer�nyi's appreciation ( 1996 : 124 ), although " Saussure is the founder of modern views on the IE vowel system ", " the true founder of the laryngeal theory is the Danish scholar M�ller ."
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For the first half-century of its existence, the laryngeal theory was widely seen as " an eccentric fancy of outsiders " ( Szemer�nyi 1996 : 123 ) . " In Germany it was totally rejected " ( ib . 134 ).
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Laryngeal theory provides a more elegant general description than reconstructed schwa by assuming that the Greek vowels are derived though vowel colouring and H-loss from PIE h? h? h? constituting a so-called "'triple reflex " '.
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The " IEW " is now slightly outdated, especially as it was conservative even when it was written, ignoring the laryngeal theory, and hardly including any Anatolian material, but it remains without any single replacement and thus remains an important tool of reference.
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The rules governing the emergence of the acute in Balto-Slavic seem complicated when they are formulated within the framework of " classical " Proto-Indo-European laryngeal theory, as there is no obvious connection between laryngeals and voiced stops, both of which trigger the acute register.
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Once the laryngeal theory was developed, and the rules for sound change of laryngeals worked out, it was clear that there were a number of exceptions to the rules, in particular with regard to " syllabic " laryngeals ( former " schwa indogermanicum " ) that occurred in non-initial syllables.
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A historically important example of this is the laryngeal theory, according to which many long vowels in the Indo-European languages were formed from short vowels followed by any one of several " laryngeal " sounds of Proto-Indo-European ( conventionally written h 1, h 2 and h 3 ).
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In 1878, Ferdinand de Saussure, then a 21-year-old student at the University of Leipzig, published his " M�moire sur le syst�me primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europ�ennes ",'Dissertation on the original system of vowels in the Indo-European languages', the work that founded the laryngeal theory.
