Re: elision
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Monday, October 29, 2007, 12:01 |
Hi!
R A Brown writes:
>...
> The other 'solution' often adopted in natlangs is to insert an
> intrusive /d/ between the two consonants. We find that often in
> ancient Greek, e.g. _aneer_ (man, adult male) has accusative _andra_
> <-- *anra.
This is also the reason why my name is misspelleng *Hendrik so often.
As Regimonti seems to have a retroflex /r/ (any particular reason?),
the epenthetic plosive would probably be [d`], and the /n/ might even
be retroflex by regressive assimilation. So maybe /nr`/ > [n`d`r`]?
**Henrik
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