En réponse à Pablo David Flores <pablo-flores@...>:
>
> Actually, no. [j\] is the voiced palatal fricative. AFAIK there's
> no SAMPA for the voiced palatal stop (though you can use [c_v],
> where [_v] is the voiced diacritic).
>
OK, I've checked my X-SAMPA chart, and it gives [j\] for the palatal fricative
and [J\] for the palatal stop. I just exchanged them :)) .
>
> Besides Christophe's example ([ka] -> [tSa]), there's Japanese
> /tu/ = [tsM]. But you're definitely right (I wouldn't have any of
> those in a conlang of mine for fear of being unnaturalistic, if
> I didn't know).
>
LOL Once again, languages are here to prove universals wrong ;))) .
> I do have a double change related to this in one of the sister
> languages
> of my Senu Yivokuchi: [x] > [s] / _[+front] AND [s] > [x] / _[+back].
>
If those changes occured simultaneously, wasn't there a period where confusions
were possible?
Christophe.
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