Re: initial mutation or trigger? Re: re Mutations
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 14, 2004, 21:51 |
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:13:05AM +0200, Rodlox wrote:
> > Explain what you now understand a trigger to be.
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> an isolate either at the beginning of a sentance (common), or just before
> the word...and the trigger can change the meaning of a sentance by simply
> being one letter different.
Well, it seems to me that what we were talking about was pretty much the
opposite of that. The meaning doesn't change, but one of the sounds
does, do to the phonetic environment. I mean, I don't know Welsh, but
the initial consonant mutation seems fundamentally similar to the final
consonant mutation in the English indefinite article: the final
consonant is normally zero, but becomes [n] before a vowel.
-Marcos
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