'Laryngeal' Theory to be replaced by Vocalic Theory?

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Subject: Re: [MTLR] RE: 'Laryngeal' Theory to be replaced by Vocalic Theory?


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
>
>> Patrick:
>>
>> Whether this <areuh> begins with a glottal stop or [h] or not, I would
>> trust only a trained linguist with recording devices to acoustically
>> measure and analyze the sequence.
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> It starts with the vowel /a/
> as every French speaker knows.
> The most post-dorsal consonant in French is /R/.
>
> What is the point of discussing the obvious ?
> I understand you need to make this point unclear
> in order to support some of your other inadequacies.
> It just does not make sense.
> You cannot sometimes invoke trained linguists and then dismiss
> phonological basics.
>
> Arnaud
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>
>> Forgetting babies for the moment,
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>
> So far,
> you still have not provided any justification for your haekelian claim.
> And I suppose you will come back with that claim later,
> with the same usual manner of stating that this or that is supposedly
> obvious,
> when you have not provided anything to support your multiple prejudices.
>
> Arnaud
>
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>> With 90 possibilities to manipulate, speakers of the Proto=Language could
>> actually convey useful information effectively.
>
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> So far,
> you have not justified this golden number of 90 possibilities,
> which is a mystical oddity.
>
> Arnaud
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>>
>> There is also the empirical aspect:
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> Empirical...
>
> When so many prejudices and biases are stockpiled one upon another.
>
> Arnaud
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