Re: [T] -> [f] (was: Chinese Dialect Question)

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:06:01PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Northeast/ncshift/ncshift.html is terse
> but on point.
Thanks!

> > But for whatever reason, vowel changes seem less dramatic than
> > consonant ones to me.  I guess it's because with the vowels
> > there was already so much more dialectical variety there to start with.
>
> In English, yes.  In Spanish, it's typically the consonants that vary.
True enough.

-Mark