Re: Lenition or Elision or What?

Hi!

caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> writes:
> There is a phonetic phenomenon in Senjecan that occurs when the
> personal pronoun nominative + the present tense marker are prefixed to
> a verbnoun with an initial vowel.
>
> m-i-ât-a /mi'at_da/
> 1sg.-pres.-go-indic.
> I go.
>
> This becomes mïâta. m_j'at_da
I'd just call it 'palatalisation'.

**Henrik

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