On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 02:59:40 GMT, "Glen Gordon"
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glengordon01@...> wrote:
>There was no *pw. There can't be any *pw sound. The sound *p is inheirantly
>labial to begin with! How does one honestly distinguish *p and *pW? Any
>examples of this in a HUMAN language?
"Other languages, including certain Australian and Caucasian
languages, permit labialization of a much wider rasnge of consonants,
including those whose primary place of articulation is labial.
Examples from Arrernte are given in table 10.10 [BILABIAL: pw, mw,
pmw, mpw]", Ladefoged & Maddieson pp. 356-357. A labialized bilabial
continuant [B] is a common variant of Dutch <w> (in Flemish).
Labialized /pw/ is quite easy to make, in fact. Try it. Maybe you
should first get your facts straight, and then accuse other people of
being amateurish.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...