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

At 5:05:09 AM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, Arnaud Fournet wrote:

> From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>

[I had written:]

>>> (By the way, every serious linguistic description of
>>> French that I've read gives French three glide phonemes,
>>> /w/, /j/, and /turned-h/.)

> The Petit Robert which is the first dictionary of French
> edited by people with a real linguistic background
> uncommittingly writes theses sounds as sounds within [ ].

Which shows that its editors are offering phonetic
pronunciation guides rather than a phonemic analysis and
makes it irrelevant to the question under discussion.

Brian