Re: Languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 4, 2000, 4:55 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> /gra~d/ vs. /gra~/ are /p@'tit/ vs. /p@'ti/, /vERt/ vs. /vER/,
> /mov'Ez/ vs. /mo'vE/, etc...).
Right. There's no way of predicting from the masculine form what the
feminine form would be (going solely by phonetics), but you can predict
the masculine from the feminine. I've read of other languages that had
deletion rules, I would suspect that they all have a similar origin to
the French alternations.
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