Re: Phonetics vs. Phonemics

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>On 2/23/06, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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>>Mark J. Reed wrote:
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>>>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.
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>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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Well, I think it's generally counted as a dialect of Provencal, though
it's really transitional between Provencal and Catalan..

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