[tied] Abstractness (Was Re: [j] v. [i])

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> To use a real-life example, Englidh /h/ and /N/
> ("ng") are in complementary distribution, but no-one has ever

dreamt of

> simplifying the system by assigning them to the same phoneme.

I've another comment on that, but I've made it at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phoNet/message/415 , where I think it
more properly belongs.

Richard.