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Re: THEORY: h huffnpuffery (was: RE: varia)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, February 6, 2000, 4:23
raccoon@ELKNET.NET wrote:
> Interesting... I wonder if there's any connection between that and the > Japanese allophones of /h/ before front vowels: /ha hi hu he ho/ [ha Ci p\u > he ho]. Only when the phoneme comes before a high vowel does it become > anything other than [h].
Well, in the case of /hu/, originally, the h-series represented /p/. The /p/ then evolved into /P/, the /P/ subsequently became /h/ except before /u/ -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor