Natlang contractions (Was: Re: maggelity and Satritain)

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:24:11PM -0500, Sally Caves wrote:
[snip]
> in making Teonaht utterances naturalistic.  For instance in English:
> 'djitjEt meaning "Did you eat yet?"
[snip]

Cool, I've noticed this before. I've also noticed that with close friends
this tends to happen a lot more, since there is a greater common context
and not as much information needs to be conveyed. E.g., in my L1, I notice
myself doing contractions like:
        tsin tsi~a  luan  --> [tsa~lAn]
        very really noisy
        "[It's] very noisy."

        lu  u    i~a    ai   ki ah? --> [luj~ajk_hja]
        you have really want go -
        "Do you really want to go?"

This looks awfully suggestive of how I can introduce sound change in
Ebisedian's descendent langs. :-)


T

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