Re: Reasonable sound changes.
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 9, 2005, 11:47 |
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Hey!
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:01:53 -0800, bob thornton <arcanesock@...> wrote:
>First great sound change:
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>/k_w/ -> /p/
I don't know much about sound changes, but this feels a little strange. "QU"
changes into "P", doesn't it?
>Second great sound change:
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>Plosive clusters simplify, i.e /kt/ -> /k/, etc.
Italian has it just the other way round as far as I know, i.e. [kt] -> [t]
or maybe [?t].
Carsten
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