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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> However,
> my story so far goes that all labiodentals (*sW and
> *tW) were dephonemicized to *sw and *tw by the Late
> IE period.
Isn't there a better name for these labialised dentals? When you
say 'labiodental' I immediately think of [f] and [V]. It's bad
enough that the labialised velars ([kW] etc.) are called labiovelars
when no one seems to believe that they were actual labiovelars ([k_p]
etc. - read this as X-SAMPA or as including an IPA slur).
Richard.