Re: Phonetics vs. Phonemics

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> 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.
> >
> > 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!
The one Gascon word I can recall is _hwek_, cognate of Spanish _fuega_.

                                                              Andreas