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Re: Saying "Thank you."

From:Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Saturday, August 25, 2001, 20:55
> 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. Jesse S. Bangs Pelíran jaspax @juno.com "There is enough light for those that desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition." --Blaise Pascal

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