The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

>
> Of course a system with palatal*ized* consonants always has a

potential to

> lose the palatalization, so it matters whether we consider *k^ to

be a

> palatal stop (IPA /c/), or a palatalized /k'/.
>

How does a consonant know whether it's palatal or palatalised?

Torsten