Re: question about creaky voice

--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

> 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'. :-)
Thanks for finding that out :) The changes you
proposed are plausible...but not what I was looking
for. I think I phrased the question wrongly. I was
looking for ways that creaky voice specifically (no
other elements) could affect the way the word changed.
If creaky voice is too far down in the throat, maybe
no vowel changes occur? If so, what are possible thigs
that creaky voice can do?



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