Re: A sound change question...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Muke Tever" <muke@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: A sound change question...


> From: "Peter Bleackley" <Peter.Bleackley@...>
> > Staving E. Notagain:
> > >This has probably been asked before, but what is /w/ most likely to
turn
> > >into?
> >
> > Here are a few possible sound change sequences:
> >
> > [w] -> [hw] -> [h] -> [?] -> []
> > [w] -> [b\] -> [h] -> [?] -> []
> > [w] -> [b\] -> [b] -> [mb] -> [m]
> > [w] -> [b\] -> [v] -> [f]
> > [w] -> [b\] -> [p\] -> [f]
> > [w] -> [b\] -> [p\] -> [p]
> > [w] -> [b\] -> [b_v] -> [p_f]
> > [w] -> [b\] -> [p\] -> [p_f]
> > [w] -> [u]
> > [w] -> [y]
> > [kw] -> [p]
>
> If we're throwing in clusters, dont forget [tw] > [s] and [kw] > [t], both
from
> Greek.
I think that's [k_w], not [kw]

>     *Muke!
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