Re: Romula: tense system - request for comments

Raymond Brown wrote:
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> At 5:21 pm -0500 4/1/00, Nik Taylor wrote:
> >Raymond Brown wrote:
> >> But Artyom states quite clearly that it belongs somewhere in the western
> >> group; thus, as Andrew says, one would expect -mos.
> >
> >On the other hand, in Portuguese, unstressed /e/ and /o/ in final
> >syllables (at least in Brazilian Portuguese, I don't know about European
> >Portuguese) becomes /i/ and /u/, so that "do" is /du/, not /do/ (= de o
> >= of the.masc.sing), and "de" is /dZi/ (/d/ and /t/ are palatized before
> >/i/).
>
> Thanks - I'd forgotten this.  I understand this is true of European
> Portuguese also, tho I don't think it has the palatalization of /d/ and /t/.
        It's not always true that /t/ and /d/ are palatalized before /i/
in Brazil. There's a considerable number of Brazilian speakers that
don't do it (me, included). The Portuguesepeople don't too.
        This pronounciation is derived from an old pronounciation of the
European Portuguese, when Brazil was still a colony. Some parts of the
country accepted it, others rejected (for religious reasons, it seems --
IIRC).

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