Re: Latin <h>

Muke Tever scripsit:

> However this will not help you at all when [4] appears in a monomorph,
> such as [wA4@`].  This is evidence for a /4/ phoneme, albeit a restricted
> one; it will only appear intervocalically, and never initially in a
> stressed syllable.  [This is suspicious...]  Since it does not contrast
> with /t/ or /d/, principle indicates it should be regarded as an allophone
> of one, say /d/ to which it is phonetically more similar.
Diachronically or cross-dialectally, of course, we know it's /t/.  But
/stej4@`/ 'Persian coin' vs. /fr\i: stej4@`/ 'one who supports the
Irish Free State', how about that one?

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