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Re: help! phonology...

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 5:24
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:

> Something you might consider that German does not do (but Pima appears > to) is to devoice nasals and liquids. I have a very cool example of a > palatal l becoming a voiceless lateral fricative. Very unusual. Very cool.
It figures; it's almost impossible to devoice /l/ without having it become a fricative. In Valdyan, /Tl/ becomes [l-] (voiceless lateral fricative) even if /T/ and /l/ are in different syllables: the current crown prince is called Athal (underlying /aTl/, the second <a> is just a filler; it used to be syllabic /l/). In the accusative <Athlea> his name is pronounced as if it's written <Alhea>. It depends on the dialect whether it's pronounced with slightly palatalized [l-] (how do I write that?) and plain [a], or plain [l-] and [ja] or even [E@]. Irina -- Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay. irina@valdyas.org (myself) http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas