Re: Development of Consemitic Bilabial Emphatic

 --- Steg Belsky wrote:

> It'd go soemthing like:
> 1. /K'/ merges into /T'/ (similarly, /K/ merges into /T/)
> 2. /T'/ becomes labiodental (tongue extends)
Tongue extends to give labiodental?  Labiodentals don't have tongue
extension, do they? That sounds more like linguolabial...

> 3. /T'<lbd>/ becomes /t'<lbd>/ (plosivization)
> 4. /t'<lbd>/ becomes /p'/ (tongue retracts)
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