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Re: Lenition or Elision or What?

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, December 9, 2005, 20:41
On 12/9/05, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> For similar reasons, Mark's "approximantification" is not accurate > either, since there is no approximant. There is merely the labialization > or palatalization of the [m] (and presumably of any other consonant in > that position).
True. I read it the same way you did - as [mi] -> [mj], rather than [mi] -> [m_j]. (Underscore? What underscore?) And I don't even have the bunged-up-sinuses excuse.
> It seems to me that in fact there is _only_ coalescence: [mi] --> [m_j] > and [mu] --> [m_w]. > > I guess, because the coalescence is triggered by two vowels coming > together, it could be term 'synizetic coalescence' (but not IMO > coalescent synizesis).
I'll buy that. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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