Michael Everson scripsit:

> I may be badly jetlagged, but no one told *me* that phoneme theory
> had been discarded.

Not so much discarded as modified out of all resemblance to its
structuralist ancestor. See http://tinyurl, particularly the penultimate
paragraph.com/2hwwq . While this is a message on the Conlang mailing
list, the author is a professional phonologist.

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