[tied] Re: PIE voiceless aspirates

I wonder: Are there any instances of phonemic difference between
aspirated stops and stops + h in IE?

If this is not the case, perhaps everything that look like aspirated
stops were stops + h(1,2or3) in IE, and the whole consept of aspirated
stops an illution?

> The issue is whether we have a unit phonemes such as *pH or clusters
> *p + *h (*h2, I think, but I'm open to correction). A system with
> /t/, /d/ and /dH/ but not /tH/ may seem unusual, but it is not
> unprecedented among living languages. A partial analogy to the
> English is English _hew_ - is it /hju:/ or /çu:/?
>
> Richard.
>