Re: Phonology - request for comments

----- Original Message -----
From: Josh Roth <Fuscian@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: Phonology - request for comments

> One problem, IMHO, is your A category, which you loosely defined as
> "approximant or other."
> This system isnt really organized as nicely as it looks, since the last
> column is really a smushing together of what should really be three
separate
> columns and one extra row (if you do mean to use a bilabial-velar
approximant
> - it would be more interesting if you decided to make it just bilabial).
Hmm... the main reason I did that is that I haven't really decided whether
the /r/ phoneme will be a tap/flap, or trill, or approximant yet, so it's in
the approximant column for now.

As for /w/, yes, it is the velar-labial approximant, but I usually put it
with bilabials for convenience. I can't really conceive of what a pure
bilabial approximant would be like...