Re: CHAT: liaison (was: Re: CHAT: Synesthesia and conlanging (was Re: The ConlangInstinct))

Christophe>>>>>>
Sorry, this should have gone to the list, but Brad's "reply-to" was
filled with his own address.

Brad Coon wrote:
>
> Its been years but I seem to recall that Arabic does as well.
        From what I recall, what Arabic does is more like elision,
that's
to say that sounds at the end of words disappear at pauses in the
sentence,
whereas French does it the other way round, with sounds that appear when
a word is not followed by a pause. But well, it may be the way I learned
it, because both processes don't seem very different to me, more a
matter of description than a matter of real morphological difference.
But I'm not sure of it.
<<<<<<

What about Arabic doing all those wonderful things to <al->?

ISTR the <a> assimilates to the preceding vowel (if present), and the <l>
assimilates to the following consonant for certain consonants (ISTR it was all
the ones romanised with capitals, but that's prolly way off).  Isn't the
<a>-assimilation a kind of liaison?  Depending on your opinion of the
"boundedness" of <al->, the <l> assimilation might be as well?






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