Re: YACQ: Plausibility of a sound change
| From: | Tommaso R. Donnarumma <trd@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 18, 2001, 16:13 |
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At 22.12 16/02/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>dirk elzinga wrote:
> > I agree that it doesn't seem very plausible, if only because
> > glottalization and aspiration involve antagonistic vocal fold
> > gestures.
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>I dunno ... ejectives kinda sound like aspirated stops. I could imagine
>the proto-Kluna hearing those as aspirated, if they acquired it as an
>L2.
An interesting possibility, but I've already decided to dismiss
ejectives...
>Of course, another 3-way system that would be definitely plausible would
>be:
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>Protolang Kluna RA Lang
>Aspirated Aspirated Voiceless
>Voiceless Aspirated Voiced
>Voiced Unaspirated Voiced
Now, this looks very interesting, and all plausible... I might try other
ways too, but I think I'll stick to this suggestion. Thanks a lot!
Tommaso.