Re: Missing the sky
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 8, 2002, 7:14 |
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En réponse à Muke Tever <alrivera@...>:
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> Kirumbos (Hadwan) makes exactly this shift...
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> /2/ (whatever it is) > /@/ > /I/
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> p2ter > f@cer > ficir
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Well, if /2/ is SAMPA, it's o-slash in IPA, and thus already a vowel (close mid
front rounded, the rounded equivalent of /e/). So this very plausible shift
(after all, French schwa /@/ is pronounced much like [2]) is not comparable to
the one beginning with /x/...
Christophe.
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