Re: Lenition
| From: | Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 24, 2002, 18:14 |
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Christophe Grandsire sekalge:
>Well, I don't want to begin the flamewar that happened a few month ago
about
>whether voiced sounds are "softer" or "harder" than voiceless sounds
[....]
Unvoiced plosives are often aspirated, which adds to the confusion. /p/
is just like /b/ except for voicing, but it's usually /p_h/ versus /b/.
That's my theory, at least. I have a few others, one of which I have
written a short paper on. It targets exactly which people cause which
types of language change.
Laimes,
Wright.
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