Re: Plural vowel change
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 28, 1999, 21:34 |
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Stegosaurus Belsky scripsit:
> Then what kind of umlaut is it called when the vowel is raised?
AFAIK no umlaut process (loosely, a phonological change to a vowel
as the result of a later vowel) has ever done that. I might
hypothesize that barred-I, the highest central vowel, might tend
to raise other vowels under its influence.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)