Re: [tied] Wine

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 4707
Date: 2000-11-13

French (or Spanish, Polish, etc.) [pw], [bw], [mw], [fw], [vw] are clusters, not a unitary segments. Many languages impose a ban on such sequences (English has them only in handful of loans from languages in which they are permissible). Distinctively rounded labial phonemes contrasting with non-labial ones are very rare (understandably so, since in most languages labialisation = rounding), but do occur in some languages.
 
Piotr
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Verhaegen
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Wine


>>There was no *pw. There can't be any *pw sound. The sound *p is
inheirantly
>>labial to begin with! How does one honestly distinguish *p and *pW? Any
>>examples of this in a HUMAN language?

What about French pois & pas?

Marc