Re: Ant: Re: Linguistics: Final /?/ and /h/

bob thornton skrev:
> Aren't there SAmerican dialects of Spanish with
> word-final /h/ where there once was /s/?
Not only S America, but S Spain as well.  In some
it goes on to lower preceding vowels, giving
surface contrasts between tense and lax vowels.

Welsh must have gone through a phase with [h]
for final /s/ too, FWIW.

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