Re: THEORY: Allophones
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 10, 1999, 18:28 |
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Fabian wrote:
> in Old English, 'g' before a front vowel is pronounced /y/. Does that count?
Well, I'm not sure that there was any /j/ phoneme in Old English
to begin with. IIRC, all [j]s were allophones of /g/.
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