kinsi rorotan: dialec ts and script

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

>
> [i] > [j] > [J\]* > [C] > [c]
>
> ...equivalent to...
>
> [u] > [w] > [G]** > [x]** > [k]**
>
> *Is this the SAMPA for a voiced, palatal fricative?
Yes (IIRC the voiced palatal stop is [j\]).

>
> Anyway, the way I think about it, palatalization, or palatal-related
> changes
> become less likely the further away they get from [i].   So, [i] is
> highly
> like, [y] is likely, [I] and [Y] aren't unusual, and neither is [e], [E]
> and
> [i-] are kind of getting questionable, [3] is highly questionable, and
> then
> when you get out to [u-], [@] and [&], it's becoming more and more
> unlikely--though [&] is the most likely of the three, I think.   So
> frontness
> matters more than height, I'd think.   Or were you shooting for
> dissimilation...?
>
Well, look at French which has had the change [k] > [tS] / _[a] (and then [tS]>
[S], hence cattus>chat [Sa]). So indeed I'd say frontness matters more than
height. Not though that this change happened way after the palatalisation of
velar consonants in front of [e], [i] and [j].

Christophe.

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