Dirk Elzinga wrote:
> That's right; I remember Ray mentioning Tamil and Shoshoni having
> similar processes, right down to the gemination and post-nasal
> voicing.
Yep - I think that's one of the reasons I liked Tepa when I first met
it. The phonology brought back memories my teenage attempt at learning
some Tamil.
[snip]
> On 2/24/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
[snip]
>>One rather well-known language which has this allophony
>>is Tamil. /k/ is [k] word initially and in gemination,
>>[g] after /n/ (which becomes [N] in this position) and
>>[G] when ungeminated between vowels.
Yep - what is generally transliterated as _itu_ (this) = ['IDU]
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Roger Mills wrote:
> BP Jonsson wrote:
>
>>I suggest everyone reads J C Welss' "Accents of English",
>>Cambridge 1982. That reading will preempt all YAEPTs
>>for a long time to come.
>>
>
> Oh!! An outcome devoutly to be wished for.........
Amen!
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