Re: USAGE: syllables

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:15:16 -0700 JS Bangs <jaspax@...>
writes:
> Languages can make up their own groupings to a certain extent. I
> recently
> discovered that Old Yivrian is best described with three sonority
> classes:
> 1) Stops, fricatives, nasals, and [l]
> 2) Liquids/semivowels ([r], [w], and [j])
> 3) Vowels
> What's weird is that [l] patterns with the obstruents, adding to the
> list
> of things about [l] that's funny in OY. I'm still puzzling over that
> one.
> Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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Could [l] in Old Yivrian have come from some less sonorous sound, for
instance, a lateralized [d], in Really Old Yivrian?

What else is weird about the Old Yivrian /l/?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Complex rock sequences like those in the Gurvan Saichan are a mélange
and a mess.  Faults cut through one rock unit and raise it much higher,
above a section of the same age on the other side of the valley.
Sometimes rocks are perversely overturned, so that the young ones are
actually *below* the older ones..."
     ~ from 'dinosaurs of the flaming cliffs' by michael novacek