Re: Some Sound Changes

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:42:44 -0500, Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:24:13 -0500, Alex Fink
><a4pq1injbok_0@...> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:01:01 -0500, Jeffrey Jones
><jsjonesmiami@...>
>>wrote:
>>>I just made a set of sound changes for yet another new project that I'd like
>>>opinions on. I don't think I have the correct form, but I hope it will be
>>clear.
>>
>>Most of my observations were made by John V; I'd just add that in
>>
>>> 7. tj, dj > ts), dz)
>>
>>I'd expect /t_hj/ > /ts)_h/ as well, to later turn to /s/ in step 9.  I
>>think langs with affricates and aspirated stops overwhelmingly have
>>aspirated affricates, and your three stop series seem to pattern together
>>before this.
>
>OK, I may have to change the order of some rules, since I'd like /t_hj/ to come
>out as [C], not [s].
Right, that's your only source of [h], isn't it.  That makes things a bit
trickier.  I think the solution, then, is not to make 11 later but to make
10 earlier: before 7 so that [T] > [h] is out of the way for the
palatalization of the dentals, but after 6 so that your new fricatives don't
voice intervocalically.  How about this, also taking the opportunity to put
both affrications together?

...
 6. s > z / V __ V
6a. p_h, t_h, c_h, k_h, k_w_h, q_h > P, T, C, x, x_w, X
    P, T > f, h
 7. c, J\, C > tS), dZ), S
    tj, dj > ts), dz)
    sj, zj > S, Z
 8. z > r
 9. ts), dz) > s, z
11. hj, hw > C, x_w
    lj, lw > j, w
    rj, rw > :j, :w
...

Alex