Re: yet another new lang sketch (sorry) [ + pitch-stress, + Welsh]

"J. Barefoot" wrote:
> I suppose I don't quite know the technical description. Not being able to
> hear the differeence between the English allophones of /l/, I would say
> mostly like English.
Then it's alveolar, no palatal about it.  The English allophones of /l/
are velarized and non-velarized, velarized meaning that while you make
the /l/ sound, the back of the tongue is lifted up slightly, as if you
were making /M/ (velar glide) at the same time.

> It may be. I tried to set up the derivation system so that that would be
> uncommon, but still possible. It adds and hint of irregularity, don't you
> think? But good point. I'll think about it.
Your description made it sound like you could predict the past stem from
the non-past, but not the other way around.  Is this true?  If so, it's
rather like French masculine forms of adjectives which, phonetically,
are formed by dropping the final consonant of the feminine
(/gRa~d/-/gRa~/, /p@tit/-/p@ti/, etc.).  Deletion derivation rules!  :-)

> The nominative singular form of the noun "mutates" (probably not the correct
> term) slightly before taking case endings.
As far as I can tell, that's the correct term.

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