Re: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

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> > not a single IE language lacks native words with initial vowels.
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> German?
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> In careful speech a glottal stop will introduce all vowels.
> (I do admit, however, that (a) in real speech words are clumped

together,

> and (b) the glottal stop may not be present before an unstressed vowel.)

But that would appear to be non-phonemic. If it disappears in normal
speech then I would say it's not "really" there even if it's
phonetically there in careful speech.