Re: What could /s/+/h/ become?
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 24, 2005, 6:34 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
>Shreyas Sampat wrote:
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>>On 23 Aug 2005, at 3:37 pm, Henrik Theiling wrote:
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>>>Hi!
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>>>For creating S11's sandhi, I need an idea to what /s/ + /h/ could
>>>mutate. I'm somewhat stuck and don't seem to have good ideas.
>>>
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>>Hm, maybe it could devoice the environment... /sh/ is a pretty
>>strongly unvoiced cluster. It'd probably assimilate them to /s:/ in
>>the process as well.
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>And maybe it could just > /h/, given that s > h is a very common sound
>change. s_h would be even more prone to do that I think.
>
I agree entirely. The change [s] --> [h] is not exactly uncommon
(ancient Greek, Persian, old Welsh inter_multa_alia, and its happening
in certain environments in many Spanish dialects).
Furthermore the change /sh/ to /h/ happened in th Gaelic languages where
the spelling {sh} reflecting older aspirated /s/ is now pronounced
simply as [h].
My first reaction when Henrik asked the question was "obviously it'd
become [hh] or just plain [h]
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