Re[2]: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar A

At 4:41:32 PM on Friday, October 31, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

[...]

> from the point of view of French phonology, [wi] is a
> vocalic diphtongue /ui/ and there is no /w/ phoneme.

I disagree, but even if you were right about <oui>, there is
no doubt that French has a phoneme /w/, e.g., in <coin>
/kwE~/.

Brian