Re: Latin <h>

Muke Tever scripsit:

> Don't forget the dialects that use [h] for syllable-final /s/.
> In such a case you could actually have a new /h/ phoneme from the merger
> of /x/ > [h] and /s/ > [h] (there's a rule somewhere that a single phone
> cannot be an allophone of two different phonemes) e.g. if you had <reloj>
> vs. ?<relós>.
AFAIK there are no dialects that both do s > h and x > h.  But as for a
single phone being an allophone of two different phonemes, in American
English [4] is an allophone of medial /t/ as well as medial /d/: this
is a special case of neutralization.

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