Re: [tied] Finnish hevonen "horse"

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 10758
Date: 2001-10-30

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:07:17 -0000, "Knut" <aquila_grande@...>
wrote:

>The time depth we are talking about when comparing uralic and indo-
>european is so great that it is meaningless to try to find exact
>correspondances between such sub-phonemic elements as labialisation,
>aspiration, glottalisation, etc.

On the contrary, the whole thing becomes meaningless if we *don't*
consider exact sound correspondences.