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Re: a "natural language" ?

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, November 29, 2004, 19:44
Roger Mills wrote:

>Mark J. Reed wrote: > > >>I keep running across that term "sandhi". Does that just mean the rules >>that determine which allophone is chosen in a given phonetic >>environment, or is something else going on? >> >> >> >It can be purely phonetic, but also morphophonemic (changes to the base >form). In most cases, it probably involves assimilation of one sort or >another. > >Consider: >Skt. root {ruc} 'shine': present (with guna ="add -a- to root") > >rocati >r-a-uc+a+ti >r.guna.uc+theme V+3pers. > >root {bhu} 'be' : >present bhavati = bh.guna.u+a+ti in this case the a-u > av because a vowel >follows. > >
I've never heard that bit described as Sandhi (though the Buddha example below, yes). However, the above example is just an example of the equivalence of <av> and <o>.