Typology and the phonetics of laryngeals

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On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, petegray wrote:

> Why should the laryngeals line up with the allegedly three-fold velar
> series?  Why not with the much more widely attested three-fold stop series
> (T, D, DH), whatever that was?

	Because of effects on vowel quality, or what some would call vowel
place.  We should note that there may well have been fewer perceptible
effects than places.  Velar and dental, and labial and labio-velar, might
have had very similar effects.

					DLW