Re: Revised Verb paradigm!

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> <<The <ph> sounds like an <f>, if I'm not mistaken. That's called
> lenition
> in celtic languages.>>
>
> Or spirantization, in other languages.  All the same, these are usually
> auditorally or phonetically conditioned sound changes, not phonemic.
I disagree. In Celtic languages, those changes once phonetically conditioned
have become phonemic, since they appear even when the environment which
provoked them disappeared.

  If
> anything, I'd think the <ph> would become a victim of paradigm leveling.
>  I'm curious to see what the answer will be.
>
Celtic languages live very well keeping those changes without paradigm
levelling. On the contrary, those changes are now part of the paradigm and
considered to be the regularity. So I don't know why it should disappear.

Christophe.

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