Re: Phonetics vs. Phonemics
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 23, 2006, 15:46 |
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On 2/23/06, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
> >The most different-seeming to me are [h] and [f] for Japanese /h/, but
> >those aren't all that far apart really.
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> Well, Spanish (and Gascon, I think) has an /f/>/h/ sound change, so it
> does happen.
Yeah, that's part of why I said they aren't that far apart. Spanish
had /f/ -> /h/ -> zero (fabulare -> hablar /hablar/ -> /ablar/); I
don't know about Gascon. I didn't even know there was a Gascon
language!
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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