Re: Germanic 'bear'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> > I strongly disagree. Grassmann's Law only applies to those IE

languages

> > which have true aspirated stops in series III, so IMHO there's no
> > justification for reconstructing a "voiced aspirated" (or whatever

other

> > name you choose) series in PIE.
>
> You don't accept [± spread glottis] as a valid distinctive feature?

So

> how would you like to encode breathy voice in phonological terms?
>

Alhtough I won't reconstruct them for PIE, I think IE-ists should at
least use IPA standard symbols (a superscript [h\]).