Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:41:45 -0500, Patrick Ryan
> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >***
> >Patrick:
> >
> >I doubt very seriously that anyone can pronounce /t/ and /?/

simultaneously,

> >which would be a sound that no language known to me has.
> >
> >For /?/ to be pronounced, the air-flow has to be stopped at the

glottis.

> >This would mean that even if one subsequently stopped the

glotally released

> >air-flow at the alveoli, what was being pronounced would properly

be notated

> >as /?t/.
>
> [?t]
>
>

Da. 'teater' /tea?d&R/, meticulously /tea?t&R/.


Torsten