At 8:09 pm +0000 29/4/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
[snip]
>>
>>Not necessarily. In fact both modern Greek and Gaelic have /x/ with
>>allophone of /C/ before front vowels, and a separate phoneme [G] which is
>>/j/ before front vowels.
OOPS! I got the delimiters the wrong way round in the second part of the
sentence. I should have written:
"and a separate phoneme /G/ which is [j] before front vowels".
>Yes, but the Greeks at least keep the voicing intact in these variations.
So, indeed, do the Gaels.
>[x] and [j] as allophones of the same sound would be pretty extreme I do
>think.
I wasn't aware that this had been suggested. I think there must have been
some misunderstanding.
Ray.
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