Re: beyond langauges

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:51 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: beyond langauges


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

[> Patrick Ryan wrote: - RW.]
>>> That has already been done by Bomhard.

>> I don't think &h can be a phoneme of PIE
>> and I don't think tl > k makes sense.

> So Trubetzkoy's notion that NE Caucasian *tL could become /k/, /c/ or
> /q/ is mistaken? For clusters, tl > kl > k makes excellent sense.
> Richard.

I have no example in mind of tl becoming k.

For a sheer phonetic point of view,
tl is dental plus lateral distribution,
it's very far away from k velar.
Actually pl > kl makes more sense.
Both p and k are dark.

Arnaud