Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

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

[...]

>>> There is no phoneme /w/.
>>> There is just a sound [w] that is a form of the vowel /u/
>>> in pre-vocalic context.

>> Note that this is precisely the position to which you were
>> objecting in the case of PIE.

> What is this new piece of absurdity of yours ?

> I never wrote PIE did not have /w/ !
> I wrote it had both /w/ and /u/.

You objected to the idea that PIE *w and *u could be allophones
of a single phoneme, which is precisely the idea that you're now
suggesting for French.

Brian