R: Re: Digest 2 Apr

Jesse Bangs wrote:

> Muke Tever sikayal:
>
> > > I like phonology, but I don't know enough about historical phonology
to
> > > be entirely comfortable with the sound-changes I devise.
> >
> > Hehe.  My langs tend to have regular but likely-implausible sound
changes.
>
> I don't know.  There's some pretty weird stuff out there, like s > r,
> which is attested multiple times, but which I can't justify in my own
> mind.
That's rhotacism. It happened in Latin, for istance:

honos 'honour' NOM.

honos + em > honorem 'honour' ACC.

/l/ > /r/ is another type of rothacism, attested inRumanian, i.e., and in
the variety of Italian spoken in Rome:

'il lato' (the side) is realized as /er 'lado/

Std. Italian has /il lato/, Tuscanian /il lat_ho/ or /il laTo/. I pronounce
it something like /il l6to/, while in Naples, since we are at Italian
varieties, lately, they pronounce it /@l l6:t@/ with a falling intonation
(4->2/1) adn with a semi voiced intervocal /t/.

Luca

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