Re: First post & three questions

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> That doesn't necessarily mean they haven't been attested in a natlang,
If they did, they'd presumably just take the non-syllabic diacritic.

> but they can't be common --- and if they occur, it may well be as
> conditioned allophones of /j/ and /H/.
In Román, whenever /i-/ occurs adjacent to another vowel, it becomes /j/
(i.e., merging with /i/), frex (^_^) earlier Román -arì (/ali-/), after
a sound change wherein intervocalic /l/ was lost, became -ái (/aj/,
later /&/)

> If you don't want open vowels
> to acquire glides (/ja-/ or /wA-/, for instance), some sort of
> velar/pharyngeal/glottal segment
Pharyngeal approximate would work, I'd think.

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