Re: Borrowing a word
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 21, 2003, 17:03 |
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At 06:03 PM 8/21/03 +0300, you wrote:
>Andreas Johansson dagizhe:
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> > Reminds me; how can a labiodental fricative possibly be labialized?
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>In Russian *all* consonants are strongly labialized before /u/, so one can
>compare initial sounds in _fára_ ["far@] 'headlight' and _fúga_ ["fug@]
>'fugue'.
>The latter definitely has smth like [f_w]. Surely, the difference is not
>phonemic...
>
>~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~
But in Margi (spoken in West Africa), the labialization is phonemic, and
"Margi has a full suite of labialized labials," including f_w and v_w,
according to _Phonology in Generative Grammar_, by Michael Kenstowicz, p. 41.
Isidora
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