Re: Mutations of [k]
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 10:46 |
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At 11:26 20.8.2003 +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
>[k] seems to have mutated into [s] or [t_S] quite frequently in Western
>European languages. Does anyone know what processes gave rise to this?
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>Pete
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Palatalization (following [i] [e] [j] and similar front vowel sounds.
The usual route is k > c > tS > ts > s or k > c > tS > S.
Slavic languages have this in spades too.
/BP 8^)
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