Re: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:52:54 -0500, Patrick Ryan
<proto-language@...> wrote:

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>From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
>>
>> Perhaps I should have been more explicit. I'm talking about phonemic
>> consonants.
>
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>Patrick:
>
>[?] is phonemic in German. [ain] for <ein> would be considered incorrect
>pronunciation, a mistake often made by first-year students of German.

That only means that [?] is phonetic in German.

Whether German has a phoneme /?/ is debatable.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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