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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, May 27, 2006, 21:03
Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:

> 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??
[g]>[h\] happened in Ukrainian (and Belarussian?), giving us things like the city-name Chernihiv; cf Russian Chernigov. Andreas