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Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the brain]

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Thursday, July 3, 2003, 16:32
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 01:59, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> I was thinking that voiced stop = stop + voice > aspirated stop = stop + aspirate > stop => stop > voice => aspirate
Well, actually in a lot of cases, it's presently more like aspirated stop => aspirated stop (/t/=[t_h] => /t/=[t_h]) (voiced) stop => stop (/d/=[d] => /d/=[t]) which is even simpler, too. -- Tristan.