Re: Phonology/orthography sketch

Ämne: Re: [CONLANG] Phonology/orthography sketch
Från: Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Datum: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:05:21 +0200 Till:
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Eric Christopherson skrev:
 > On May 29, 2008, at 1:51 AM, Lars Mathiesen
 > wrote:
 >
 >> This is fun. Since Benct hasn't answered, I'll
 >> give it a go...
 >>
 >> 2008/5/28, Ingmar Roerdinkholder
 >> <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...>:
 >>> shouldn't ihtas be ['ixtas]? since above you
 >>> said: 'h' = [x]
 >>
 >> It is. // // is superphonemic representation,
 >> //"i1tas// = /iGtas/ = [ixtas].
 >
 > Is that like archiphonemes?
 >
 >
 >
It's morphophonemics. Check "Morphophonology" on
Wikipedia.

A simple familiar example is the English
plural/possessive/3sg, ending which is
underlyingly //z// even when it becomes /s/ by the
familiar Germanic devoicing assimilation.

Simply put it's about the string of morphemes
before any context-dependent phonological rules
are applied.

/BP 8^)>
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