Re: Germanic 'bear'

From: Tavi
Message: 68804
Date: 2012-03-06

--- 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\]).