Re: Voiced Velar Fricative
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 12:08 |
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Kristian Jensen wrote:
> 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.
The dialects which totally drop /s/ in the coda usually replace it
with fronting: 'la casa' /lakasa/ 'las casas' /l&kas&/. Likewise
e > E and o > 0.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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