Re: Pronouns revised and word generation

Hi,
> --Not rare to linguistics, but rare to my language.
> Its only real use was in the reflexive affix.  Do you
> know of any sounds that appear only five times in a
> language?  So I went with /h/.
Yes I do :-) In Russian, there are very few words with the long soft
(palatalized) [z], and only one or two are in really regular use (so it
seems to be fallign out), and there is only ONE minimal pair for soft [g].
(Well, the last example is a strained one, there are many positional
variants, I know :-))

Bye,
Pavel

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