On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:30:37 -0400 Estel Telcontar
<estel_telcontar@...> writes:
> --- Steg Belsky wrote:
> > It'd go soemthing like:
> > 1. /K'/ merges into /T'/ (similarly, /K/ merges into /T/)
> > 2. /T'/ becomes labiodental (tongue extends)
> Tongue extends to give labiodental? Labiodentals don't have tongue
> extension, do they? That sounds more like linguolabial...
> > 3. /T'<lbd>/ becomes /t'<lbd>/ (plosivization)
> > 4. /t'<lbd>/ becomes /p'/ (tongue retracts)
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OH OOPS!
Yeah, that's what i meant.
LINGUOLABIAL.
Hence the shift to bilabial.
-Stephen (Steg)
"sheesh"