Typology and the phonetics of laryngeals

[Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Herb Stahlke wrote:

> [...] but the resulting fricative series /s, x', x,
> x^w/ is, as a fricative series, bizarre.  I looked through
> Hockett's Manual of Phonology and couldn't find anything even
> close.  Why no labial?

If you call /H1/ a simple /h/ which it must have been, at least some (or
most? or all?) of the time, and take the voicing of /H3/ as reason to call
it /gh/ (gamma, voiced velar spirant), but keep /s/ and /x/, you get VERY
close to Dutch.

Jens E. Rasmussen