Re: THEORY: NATLANGS: Phonology and Phonetics: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Dipht

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>
> Classical Klaish, a conlang of mine, has a phoneme that is realized as
> [h\] or
> [?\] and corresponds to /a/ as /j/ to /i/ and /w/ to /u/.
>
> It mostly goes to zero in descendant langs, but >[h] initially in Telenian
> and
> Searixina.
That is probably more logical than the way I'm using h\--- as the lenition
(ultimately) of /g/. Its usual effect is to lengthen the preceding V, or in
some cases > @ to produce a V+@ diphthong.  It has a peculiar effect in the
sequences (Á = stressed V) -Á-h\-V, -V-h\-Á, Á-h\-V-h\# -- here I've decided
it creates a copy of the preceding V, which works out OK; but in V-h\-Á-h\#
it only copies the stressed vowel so that e.g. a-h\-ú-h\ > a-uúu (just in
the course of writing this I've realized the way around this problem--
unstressed iua > glide jw@, which don't fit the env. for vowel copying)....

Any thoughts, anyone??

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