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Re: THEORY: Allophones

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Saturday, April 10, 1999, 18:28
Fabian wrote:

> in Old English, 'g' before a front vowel is pronounced /y/. Does that count?
Well, I'm not sure that there was any /j/ phoneme in Old English to begin with. IIRC, all [j]s were allophones of /g/. ======================================================= Tom Wier <artabanos@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." There's nothing particularly wrong with the proletariat. It's the hamburgers of the proletariat that I have a problem with. - Alfred Wallace ========================================================