| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 28, 2005, 0:39 |
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, R A Brown <ray@c...> wrote:>I suspect many languages have problems with -tl- . I can wellimagine>not only colloquial Spanish resorts to metathesis to 'regularize'the>'unnatural' combination. It would not surprise me if such metathesis >had been recorded in some English idiolects.The pronunciation by some Black Americans of "ask" as "aks" would be, I think, an example of this. Charlie http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur
| Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |