Re: USAGE: minimum number of vowels?

Thomas R. Wier wrote:

>>Why none? The opposition still may exist as /vowel/ :: /no vowel/. Some
>>> people think PIE worked this way.
>
>
> Granted, but the question was how many contrasts were in the set
> [vowel phoneme].  The answer to that was "none", because there is
> no nonpredictable factor within that set to distinguish one from
> another.
What about [+syllabic]?

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