Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61109
Date: 2008-10-31

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From: Edgard Bikelis


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*u in *kuh2on- is a vowel.
*w in wid-tos is a consonant.

they have nothing in common.


Arnaud
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But I deleted the *i from widtos! It's a vowel, isn't it?
You mean that what we understand to be allophonic... *w *u is really two
phonemes?
Edgard.
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*u in kuh2on is a vowel,
*w in wid is a consonant,

I don't understand what you mean
a vowel like *u and a consonant like *w cannot be allophonic.

Arnaud

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