On Jun 1, 1:59 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote: Emendation: Douglas is a Classical philologist rather than a linguist. He has made a claim about phonemes in Latin but evidently does not grasp the techniques for demonstrating the nature of a phonological [= phonemic] system -- again and again he shows that the realization of phonemes as vowel or glide is conditioned