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<p><tt><font size="2">></font></tt><tt><font size="2"> </font></tt><tt><font size="2">> I'm not as familiar as you and Bob are with the total distribution of these sets over Siouan. Could you suggest some actual problems that would challenge a nasally-released stop interpretation for *W and *R? Or which would favor an alternative interpretation? (If I'm understanding aright, you favor prenasal stops: *W = *mb, *R = *nd, while Bob favors laryngeal-semivowel clusters: *W = *?w/*hw, *R = *?r/*hr. Correct?)<br>
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> For me these could be written *mw and *nr respectively. There are some problems in that these would have to be intermediate clusters. We don't reconstruct *m, *n in Proto-Siouan.</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">Bob, is this what you meant when you said you had provisionally accepted *W = *mb, *R = *nd a couple of weeks ago?</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">If we don't reconstruct *m, *n in Proto-Siouan, how about a reconstruction of *W = *pw, *R = *tr ? Would this slot be open?</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">Rory</font></tt><br>
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