Re: Phaleran voices: active, passive, antipassive, etc.

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:

> > >      dmatabrolþa                                 stmatabrolþa
> >
> > Eek!  Initial /dm/?  Are there any epenthetic schwas or assimilation?
>
> Nope, not in the standard.
Strike that -- it depends on your point of view.  The /a/ in _dmatabrolþa_
between dmat- (the root) and -bro- (the suffix) could be thought of as an
epenthetic vowel.  That's there to prevent the first syllable from ending in
a stop consonant /t/.    But that's more of a coda thing than an onset thing,
which is what your question was mainly about.

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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