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Re: nasalless and stopless language

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, July 28, 2000, 23:40
dirk elzinga wrote:
> Exactly. They are also exceedingly easy to produce. To make one, you > only have to throw one articulator against another. Fricatives require > much more precise control.
Which is why children learns sounds like /d/ and /b/ and /m/ before sounds like /f/ and /z/
> 1) lowering the larynx
Indeed, geminate voiced stops sometimes become implosives for that very reason. I'm considering that change for descendants of Watakassí, or at least some. Perhaps other descendants might use affricates? Would changes like /d:/ -> /dz/ be reasonable, do you think? Seems probable enough to me. -- "Life is a harder state to achieve than death" - Kai ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor