> > T: You realize of course that the same argument might be used against
the occurence of laryngeals in PIE?
No, because it is not the same argument. In the case of the glottalic
theory we are arguing about the phonetic nature of the reconstructed phoneme
*X. In the case of the laryngeals, we would be arguing about the actual
existence of the phoneme *X. That's rather different!
Peter