Re: Rhoticity
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 3, 2001, 6:42 |
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CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>That's pretty cool :) I've always struggled with what to do with those
>/mn/
>clusters, since I don't like the way Spanish did it and most other
>alternatives don't appeal to me either. I do like nr > ndr though. In
>Montreiano, does that develop the same as reflexes of Latin /nr/ (from nVr
>with loss of vowel)? E.g.: Latin generu > *jenro > yerno (in Spanish).
>
Oddly, i hadn't thought of what to do with nVr, but the spanish route
seems like the "easiest" route it would go (meaning speakers would
gravitate towards that form).
the former way of mn clusters to go was: mn > nn > ñn, but i didnt like
how it had sounded. So, the other day i had finally decided on mn > ndr.
>Anyway, I would say your example is one of /n/ becoming rhotic.
Thanks! What i wanted to know :).
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