From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61112
Date: 2008-10-31
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>
> *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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You have cases like
Spanish continúo /kontinuo/ "I continue" /k@.../
and continuo /kontinwo/ "continual" /k@...@l/
where /u/ and /w/ seem to be allophonic in both Spanish and English
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i don't think Spanish
nor any Romance language (but northern French)
has a phoneme /w/.
PIE had a consonantic phoneme /w/ and a vocalic phoneme /u/
Your example is therefore irrelevant.
Not to say that continUo and contInuo are not stressed in the same place.
Arnaud
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