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Re: Sound change rules for erosion

From:Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...>
Date:Thursday, November 20, 2003, 21:15
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:58:50AM -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
> Nik Taylor wrote:
Wow, I'm so glad you responded to this. I didn't get the message from Nik! It went to Conlang, but it hasn't reached me yet.
> IMO this is one of the problems. It seems hard to get initial C-clusters > with a strong accent on an initial CV syllable.
That's a good point - I'll have to think on that.
> Can you have compounds of two CVCV words? That could produce a different > accent pattern--CVcv-CVcv, which would lead to e.g. **básu+kémo > báskem.
Another interesting idea.
> I like a rule that would fricativize the first of two stops in a cluster; > also, preconsonantal w > f :-)).
Very cool, yes.
> All in all, Nik has presented a goodly list.
Thanks for quoting it! (I can get the full text from the Yahoo mirror, I know.)
> I'll take a look at Amanda's posting to see what else occurs to me-- in > particular, I did feel that final unstressed vowels ought to be > dropped.........
Some of them are, now... Amanda