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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> >
> > 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?

By the shape of the tongue!

Richard.