Re: Would this consonant distribution be realistic?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 5, 2002, 12:12 |
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At 20:13 2002-10-04 -0700, Steven Williams wrote:
>Labials - [p], [m], [f], [v], [w]
>Alveolars - [t], [d], [n], [s], [l]
>Palatals - [c], [J], [n_j], [l_j], [j]
>Velars - [k], [g]
>Uvulars - [R\] (I'm thinking about adding [q] and
>possibly [q_v], whatever the symbol for a voiced
>uvular stop would be in X-SAMPA)
>Glottals - [?] (allophonically either [?\] or [?_h
No problem AFAICS. The explanation for the lack of /b/ with a /b/ > /v/
shift seems entirely plausible.
I'm more worried about the absence of [N]; many lgs lack /N/ as a phoneme,
but at least have [N] as an allophone of /n/. The most famous exception
would be Russian.
/BP 8^)>
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