Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 18742
Date: 2003-02-12

Miguel:
>In fact we have been discussing just that, ad nauseam, in the
>case of Romanian, where we have the soundlaws:

According to you, *m- caused resistence of *a>*o but not *n-.
Why on earth? Your claim is ad hoc because there's no phonetic
justification for this. We don't find the needed answer in your
distractive Romanian vowel grid.


- gLeN


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