Re: Labiovelar Phonological Identity???

From: tgpedersen
Message: 45130
Date: 2006-06-26

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
>
> From what I gather, the series kW - gW - gWH is simply a form of the
> series k - g - gH, but with rounded lips.
>
> Now, this would, by virtue of the sound's nature, distort the
> following vowel. Is this distortion present in any Indo-European
> languages, and if so, how does it manifest itself?
>

You mean like in English? But eg. Italian has no such 'distortion'.

Torsten