[tied] Re: *kW- "?"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 4:50:29 PM on Friday, September 23, 2005, Richard
> Wordingham wrote:
>

> > And how about German /?/?
>
> German certainly has [?], but does it actually have /?/? It
> seems to me that [?] is completely predictable.

I've seen a convincing argument for the existence of minimal pairs.
The glottal stop is within words. I'm not sure if I could lay my
hands on the discussion.

Richard.