Re: Saying "Thank you."

Jesse Bangs wrote:
>
> > As he said, it does indeed arise from external borrowing. IIRC, the
>only
> > known cases of a fricative to stop shift occur in Papua New Guinea.  It
>is
> > at any rate an extremely rare type of sound change.
>
>Eh?  I was under the impression that [T] > [t] and [D] > [d] were fairly
>common.  They occur in many dialects of English where you can hear [wIt
>d&t] for [wIT D&t].  German had a [T] > [d] change, and I'm pretty sure
>Arabic and Hebrew had [T] > [t] and [D] > [d].  At other places of
>articulation, the change is less common, though.
Suposedly, Danish has had a change series [t]>[d]>[D]>[d]>[D] intervocally
(any Danes to confirm/deny?).

                                          Andreas

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