Re: x > f sound change

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:23:29 +0100 Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
writes:
> Re "should of"
> phonologic. The syntactic stream phonologised as /Sud(schwa)v/ was not
being
> analysed as verb+auxiliary, but instead verb+particle or preposition,
in
> effect, similar to "phone up". Do we now see the auxiliary "have"
> metamorphosing into "of"? Will we be able to say "Of you seen my new
> car?" for instance, or will the change have /-v/ into of /-v/ remain
only
> in unstressed positions?
Well, if I say "Have you seen my car?" quickly, the first word comes out
as [Iv] or [i-v], while the phrase "of mice and men" has [@v] ([@] =
schwa).  It's only the already reduced form spelt {-'ve} that seems to
reduce fully to a schwa.


Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
jaspax@ juno.com
"There is enough light for those that desire only to see, and enough
darkness for those of a contrary disposition."  --Blaise Pascal