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Re: question about creaky voice

From:Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
Date:Saturday, June 18, 2005, 3:10
--- Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>
wrote:

> > If I have a proto-word /Kima/ where the /i/ and > the > >/a/ are creaky voiced (I'm unsure how to write that > in > >Sampa), is a plausible daughter-word something like > >/KEm/? > > > > > Well, the final a dropping isn't a problem at all. > Lots of languages > drop final vowels, whether they're creaky or not.
Yes, this I knew :) As > for lowering of the
> i... I'm not sure if that's a likely change because > of creaky voice, but > if the m nasalises the preceding vowel then it's > easily possible: nasal > vowels tend to get lowered, so i~ -> e~ could > explain the change.
I was afraid that it wasn't very likely. Do you know what kinds of vowel changes might be likely due to creaky voice? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>