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Re: dZs?

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, December 26, 2004, 21:52
Tristan McLeay wrote:

> I'm fiddling around with the Old Føtisk nominal inflexions or whatever > we call them, and just want to know if /dZ/+/s/ -> [tSs] at the end of > a word is perfectly cromulent?
I had to google for "cromulent"... <http://www.abc.net.au/classic/breakfast/stories/s835155.htm> We oughta invent a Germanic-sounding synonym!
> Obviously, we get > Hrøgj- /hr2dZ/ -> Hrøgjes > with an expected pronunciation of [hr2tSs]. My English intuition tells > me that's naughty, but is my English intuition the one who's being bad?
Since devoicing assimilation is the normal thing in Germanic outside that Franco-bastard English I say [hr2tSs] or even [hr2tS] is the expected pronunciation.
> > (The language lacks a /tS/ phoneme.)
You have a /dZ/ but no /tS/? Any idea how many universals that may break!? ;) Actually if that is the case I think that [tS] as the surface realization of /dZs/ and then becoming a marginal phoneme seems a naturalistic course of events. It also provides |gjs| as a freaky spelling for [tS] in foreign words like |Jusjgjsenko|! ;)
> > -- > Tristan. > >
-- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)

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