02-08-2018, 03:29 PM
(25-07-2018, 04:24 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.While I don't believe that k and t are the same, some of the evidence around their distribution could suggest that they're capable of changing from one to the other. Like the final sound in English belief and believe, they're different but linked (in that case voicing). Were o to be a vowel, then the change could be an example of intervocalic voicing/devoicing.
Something which has been discussed in the past, but still too far beyond our ability to prove or adequately evidence.
Yes, and that is also why they are in the same group, in the solution.
It is just a matter of definition what the = equal sign means.
From a mathematical viewpoint zero is not nothing, but in my wallet they are the same.
(I should not have place my previous comment, now I still have to explain even more, but I won't)