Re: YACL: Thylean (alternate-history)

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>> You could also go all the way. In Danish, many occurences of syllable final
>> [j] are surface forms of /g/ after front vowels. Similarly, many occurences
>> of syllable-final [w] are surface forms of /g/ after back vowels. If you go
>> back a few generations, these /g/'s were all /G/ in syllable-final position.
>> Dialects even differ in pronounciations because of differing vowels, e.g.:
>>
>>      UNDERLYING   EASTERN   WESTERN   GLOSS
>>      /dag/        [dEj]     [dAw]     "day"
>>      /lag/        [lEj]     [lAw]     "layer"
>>      /fag/        [fEj]     [fAw]     "subject, field, trade"
>
>Unless you're a very conservative speaker from the northern suburbs of
>Copenhagen, the second column is more like [d{?] and so on.
Yup, I purposely chose the conservative variants and left out the stød for
demonstrative purposes.

-kristian- 8)