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And Rosta scripsit: > That's quite an extreme position. We can't scrutinize it yet, because > we don't yet have an agreed phonology, but for [j] and [y] to be > allophones of a phoneme in contrast with the phoneme with allophone > [i] looks to be on shaky ground. The natural semivowel correspondent to [y] is [H] -- but now we are *really* far away from the notion of using sounds common in the world's languages. -- Andrew Watt on Microsoft: John Cowan Never in the field of human computing cowan@hidden.email has so much been paid by so many http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to so few! (pace Winston Churchill)