Re: Phonemes

John Atkinson wrote:

> You can see that a language which combined clicks with Caucasian-type
> secondary articulations would end up with maybe a thousand or two
> different phonemes. Even this would be far below the "theoretical
> maximum".

So you're conceding the existence of a "theoretical maximum"?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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