Three-Way Contrast of Secondary Articulations in PIE

[proto-language]

Dear Rich and IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Alderson" <alderson+mail at panix.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:39 PM

> On the topic of Kuipers' analysis of Kabardian, Pat Ryan wrote on 2 Mar 2001:

>> He maintained that Kabardian had only one vowel, for which he was severely
>> criticized.

> No, he was mildly to moderately criticized for that analysis.

> He was severely criticized for his suggestion that Kabardian had *NO*
> phonemic vowels, only a feature similar to Lehmann's "sonority peak".
> Rightly so.

[PR]
Rather than reopen the discussion of 'what is a phoneme', I will simply stand
corrected for the purposes of the discussion.

Pat

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at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío, geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim
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