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

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Saturday, October 4, 2003, 11:59
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:22:24AM +0100, Ray Brown wrote:
> Quite why Mark can't imagine the falling together of /f/ and /T/ to just > [f] (and /v/ and /D/ to /v/), I don't know.
I can *imagine* it easily enough - I just wasn't aware of it. :) And I've been conditioned through my elite-speaker prescriptivist education to regard it as an error committed by the ignorant. :)
> The change also occurred in pre-Latin
Oh, sure, but that's a historical change. Seeing it happening "in real time" in one's own language is different. -Mark

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