Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

In a message dated 11/8/01 8:25:31 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:

>Josh Roth wrote:
>> At least it would
>> have to be a front vowel for the /t/ to become an affricate.
>
>Not necessarily.  Japanese had /tu/ -> /tsu/ (well, actually /tM/ ->
>/tsM/, but it's still a back vowel)
True, but I just meant that in the context of the sound change taking place
in Quebec. I could be wrong in this context too of course, but I think I read
something about it a while back - affrication  of /t/ and /d/ takes place
before front vowels (or something like that).

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