Re: Nasalized fricatives ...

I think the lenitions in Welsh occured intervocally inside words as
well, but of course they stuck there instead of being conditioned by
what came before. So if you develop a lenition system you can easily get
them intervocally inside words by doing the same maps M -> B~ etc.

> On Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 02:49 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>> I was reviewing Meghean phonlogy earlier today, and it occured to me
>> that
>> a
>> series of nasalized fricatives [B~ D~ G~] would be quite the thing to
>> make
>> would-be learners pull their hair out. They'd occure as initial
>> mutations
>> of
>> nasal stops,
>
>
> Why only initial? Why exclude them from medial & final positions?
>