On 12/8/05, Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> wrote:
>
> > 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 opt for the term 'gliding' or 'contraction'.
I vote for "approximantification".
:)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>