if once you start looking, you'll find these reflexes elsewhere, and
the grammar is thereby simplified. since there are these phonemic
distinctions, we have an explanation for the fine gradations in the
tiberian notation: they could hear the differences.
have a happy weekend: i'm shacked up with the inlaws <sigh>.
V
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Dr Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
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University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1