Re: Germanic 'bear'

W dniu 2012-03-05 22:29, Tavi pisze:

> I'm afraid this is actually a huge misrepresentation, because aspiration
> is a feature of VOICELESS consonants, not voiced ones. However, they
> could be treated as "breathy voiced" or "murmured", which in IPA have
> got a raised [*h\*] (the voiced counterpart of [*h*]).

Breathy voice patterns phonologically with aspiration in Indo-European,
especially in Indo-Aryan (Grassmann's Law). They are both phonetic
manifestations of the distinctive feature [+ spread glottis], so there's
no need to be pedantic about the distinction.

Piotr