Re[6]: [tied] Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar A

At 3:58:14 AM on Sunday, November 2, 2008, G&P wrote:

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> More significantly for me, some linguists won't accept
> voiceless [W] as a phoneme, but in my dialect it
> undeniably is.

And in mine. (Does it ever occur other than at the
beginning of a syllable? I can't offhand think of an
example.)

> So a debate about whether a sound is or is not a phoneme
> is probably not about the sound at all, or about the
> language, but about the choice of analysis.

Indeed.

Brian