Re: Voiced Velar Fricative

Kristian Jensen wrote:
> Actually, according to the article, the stop allophones of
> /B D G/ occured not only after nasals, but also in the beginning of a
> prosodic unit called a "breath group" and after /l/ in the case of /D/.
Thanks!  I *knew* I was leaving some conditions out.

> Since there is already a tendency for some dialects to replace
> syllable-final <s> with an <h>, I thought of replacing it altogether by some
> kind of cue in the phonation in the vowel (perhaps breathy voice), or maybe
> even tone.
Or just phonemic splits.  /es/ -> /E/, /os/ -> /O/, /As/ -> /a/, while
/is/ and /us/ become just /i/ and /u/.  That's happened in some
dialects.

> the result is a future Spanish with only open syllables,
> phonemic nasal vowels, and phonemic phonation or tone -- utterly Un-Spanish.
Intriguing idea.

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