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Re: Part 2 Why my con langs SUCK!!!

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, January 24, 2004, 18:29
Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> > Final /r/ mostly patterns like pre-consonantal /r/, but what are we to > > do with "intrusive r" in non-rhotic dialects, where unhistorical r's > > appear in external sandhi by analogy to the historically lost ones? > > "sandhi"? Is that another Lojban term? (reaches for Red Book . . .)
From Sanskrit. It's denoted sound changes caused by phonemes ending up next to one another - in this case the arising of subphonemic rhotics to break up hiatic combinations caused by syntax. Internal sandhi is similar changes within a word - the voicing of the final stop of "cup" in the (former) compound "cupboard", say. Voicing sandhi is a biggish feature of Tairezazh phonology. Basically you don't get a voiced stop or fric next to a voiceless one in connected speech. So eg _shaid speik_ "dark lake" gets pronounced like _shaid zbeik_. Andreas