Abstract This article argues that the phonetic distinction between the Hittite fortis and lenis stops was not one of voice, but rather one of length, and that this distinction must have been present in Proto-Anatolian as well. On the basis of typological and comparative considerations it is argued that the Proto-Anatolian stop system cannot have developed from the stop system that is traditionally reconstructed for the Proto-Indo-European mother language and in which voice is the basic distinction. Instead, the relationship must have been the other way around: the voice distinction of PIE is a younger development of the length distinction as found in the Proto-Anatolian stop system. This relationship can only be accounted for within the context of the Indo-Hittite hypothesis, and therefore forms a new argument in favor of it.

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安纳托利亚停止系统和印度-赫梯假说

摘要 本文认为，赫梯的强塞音和短塞音之间的语音区别不是一种语音，而是一种长度，并且这种区别在原始安纳托利亚语中也一定存在。在类型学和比较考虑的基础上，有人认为原始安纳托利亚塞音系统不可能从传统上为原始印欧母语重建的塞音系统发展而来，其中语音是基本区别。相反，这种关系肯定是相反的：PIE 的声音区别是原始安纳托利亚塞音系统中的长度区别的较新发展。这种关系只能在印度-赫梯假说的背景下得到解释，因此形成了支持它的新论点。