Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

> You side with Miguel on this je-ne-sais-quoi that distinguishes
> /n/ and /m/.
> You and Miguel fail to elaborate on what it is.
> This therefore remains conjecture.

Alas it is far from conjecture. /n/ is in the dental region, /m/ not. We
know from the behaviour of other phonemes that those in the dental region
are more sharply differentiated, and more susceptible to various soundlaws.
There is no problem in a vowel having a different reflex in the vicinity of
/n/, from that which it has in vicinity of /m/.

Peter