Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

That's interesting to hear --a few years back when I
asked whether or not Gmc glottal stop was a relic of
laryngeals, everyone told me no
English, of course, still has glottal stops e.g. an
apple /?aen ?aepL/

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I think the difference is
glottal stop was a phoneme in proto-Germanic
in English, the presence of a little glottalic attack
at the beginning of the word is automatic.

Now
do you think bu?er for butter is part of the language ?
If yes, then it's phonemic in English too.

Arnaud
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