Re: Re[2]: [tied] Origins of Indo-European, and naturalness oflaryn

From: P&G
Message: 46464
Date: 2006-10-24

>>Presumably the argument is that allophonic variation is
>>phonemicized when the conditioning segments are lost.
> Do you have any examples

I refer you to Bomhard's work - I think he's particularly keen on this
idea. The same idea is also sometimes used to explain the three velars in
PIE.

Peter