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> I did not claim that at all.
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> I was trying to express that the original formulators of the
coloring theory proposed gutturals, which _they_ called "laryngeals",
since they were under the misapprehension that _gutturals_ could
'color' vowels.
It was Møller who added a third one to Saussure's vowel-coloring
"coefficients sonantiques" and called them all laryngeals, after
the fashion of Assyrian, in which language the laryngeals have
disappeared after coloring the neighboring vowels. He doesn't
use the term 'guttural'.
Torsten