Re: OT: A project
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 13, 2001, 1:21 |
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David Peterson wrote:
> The language called Ewe has [f], [F], [v] and [B] all as separate,
> disntinguishable phones, so it's possible. What I find less possible is that
> [tS] and [dZ] could exist without [S] and [Z].
Old English has /dZ/ without /Z/, Spanish has /tS/ without /S/ (neither
/dZ/ nor /Z/, except in some dialects as a variant of /j/) Japanese has
/tS/, /S/, and /dZ/, but no /Z/, also has /dz/ (romanized as {z}) but no
/z/. There's no reason that an affricate *has* to have a corresponding
fricative.
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