Re: [tied] Thoughts on the existence of *H1 revisited

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 9681
Date: 2001-09-22

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 00:23:25, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Well, an ejective is not much more than a stop with an accompanying
>glottal closure. At least in initial position, such a combination
>would have been impossible in Mid IE because *CC- was not allowed.

But ejectives are *not* consonant clusters, they are single segments.
[C'] is not the same as [C?], and there are languages where both
occur.