> Den 26. mai. 2008 kl. 10.22 skreiv Ray Brown:
>
>> In VL prevocalic _i_ was always [j] with consequent palatalization
>> preceding consonant.
>
> What do you mean exactly? Is the following vowel palatalised if a
> consonant follows, or what?
>
> LEF
Sorry - I left out "of". It should have read: "In VL prevocalic _i_ was
always [j] with consequent palatalization of the preceding consonant."
Whether any consonant follows or not is not relevant. What I mean is that
the Classical Latin CiV (two syllables) will be rendered as CjV (one
syllable in VL, and the C before (preceding) the [j] is subject to
palatalization.
Ray.