Re: Proposed Sound change
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 9, 2000, 6:58 |
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:11:42PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Anyways, I want to balance it out a bit in descendant langs. One
> thought I had was the following:
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> /i:/ -> /ji/ -> /ju/ (dissimilation) -> /u/
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> Does this seem reasonable? I got the idea for the third phase from
> Spanish uo -> ue
I think so. I'm wondering if a similar thing happened with 'long u' in
English:
/u:/ > /y:/ > /Hy/ > /jy/ > /ju/ (where /H/ is the semivowel equivalent of
/y/)
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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo