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Re: Indo-European question

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 19, 2001, 17:12
Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:35:37 -0500 > > From: Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:47:37AM -0000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote: > > > Each type is then divided by the final conoid in the stem, where > > > stops, laryngeals, and semivowels all give different developments. > > > What's a conoid? (consonant-oid?) > >It's a mipsling for contoid: > > A consonant defined phonetically, by the way it is produced, as > distinguished from a consonant in a phonological sense, defined by > its role in the structure of words and syllables. Thus a syllabic > nasal, as in the second syllable of button ['b^tn], is a contoid > even if, in phonology, it were treated as vocalic. > > Cf. vocoid: both terms were introduced by Pike in the 1940s. > > The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, © Oxford University > Press 1997 > >And it turns out that the term doesn't quite mean what I thought, >either: semivowels are probably vocoids.
I've got a book that defines vocoids as vowels and semivowels, while contoids are everything else. It is, however, quite clearly not aiming for scientifically exact definitions - it's rather trying to give the layman a clue so he can continue. Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.