Re: A few phonetics-related q's

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:30:31 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> y > (the rounded version of E~)
9~? Makes sense (e.g. brun vs brune).


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:03:09 -0600, Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:30:31 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> > Trebor wrote:
> >
> >> [...] /anta/ [...]
> >
> > [...] I'd say [anda] is a more likely outcome.
>
> And [anda] is what happens in Modern Greek, IIRC.
You do RC. Intervocalic /nt/ = [nd] (in general - [d] and [nt] are
also possible, though the latter, I believe, only in loanwords such as
/ntantela/ [dantela] "lace" < Fr. "dentelle").

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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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