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Re: Lenition or Elision or What?

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Thursday, December 8, 2005, 18:50
Charlie wrote:
> 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 > > Is there a proper name for this phenomenon? It doesn't seem to me to > be either lenition (as David Crystal defines it) or elision. >
Vowel reduction...? (full vowel reduced > glide preceding stressed V (perhaps in other envs. too?-- "in pre-tonic position" would cover other cases too), fairly common IMO