Re: question about creaky voice

Hi!

Elliott Lash <erelion12@...> writes:
>  I have a question about the development of creaky
> voiced vowels.
>
>  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/?
Why not?  a-umlaut (lowering) of /i/ makes it e.g. /e/ (or /E/
directly), then the a drops, then the syllable is closed, the vowels
gets lax and from tense /e/ you can get lax /E/ easily (if it wasn't
lowered enough before).

  /Kima/ > /Kema/ > /Kem/ > /KEm/

At least *I* think it's plausible.  Creaky voice is probably not in
the way of that change, since it's far down in the throat and probably
does not effect the tongue's position too much.

BTW, I had to look it up, too, and found that the diacritic is _k for
'kreaky'. :-)

**Henrik

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