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Re: THEORY: Allophones

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Thursday, April 8, 1999, 13:19
Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> FFlores wrote: > > Maybe you're right and I'm confusing the terms. I guess > > I'm trying to make a distinction between syllable-final > > /w/ (that *does* exist) and syllable-final /v/ realized > > as [w]. I mean, if you have two roots /tav/ and /taw/ > > and you use them as words, both are pronounced [taw], > > but if you inflect them by adding /es/ you have [taves] > > and [tawes] respectively. > > Hmm ... reminds me of German obstruents, which are devoiced when > word-final, but when you add a suffix the difference re-appears. I'd > still call that a phonetic transformation, /v/ --> /w/ when > syllable-final. >
Yes, it's definitely it. In Curco I'm trying to eliminate stops from final position, so I decided having /p, b, v/ becoming /w/ there (/b/ becomes /v/ after a vowel, so anyway that's how it would end). Then I'll make them reappear when some suffixes are added, except in some words where I might regularize them and always use /w/. I'm making the language more analytic, often losing the number distinction, so it should be easy to keep words in their root form with /w/. --Pablo Flores * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Universe is not user friendly. Kelvin Throop