Re: p <-> kw
| From: | Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 22:13 |
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:41:58 -0800 Josh Brandt-Young <vionau@...>
writes:
> You may already know this, but lip-rounding has the effect of
> lowering the
> formant frequencies of the stop burst, which means that the
> difference
> between, say, [p] and [k_w] is next to nothing, acoustically. I
> don't know
> of any living languages that do this (except, apparently, English,
> given
> your example), but PIE did: we have PIE "gwo:us" showing up as Latin
> "bo:s"
> vs. English "cow," and the same distribution holds for the voiceless
> and
> breathy-voiced stops as well.
how do we know it wasn't "bo:us" in PIE? if a b > gw change is possible,
then it is almost impossible to tell which consonant was present in PIE.
> Where have you observed this in English? Is there any chance of
> recording
> it?
well, i can give the sentence in which i first noticed it:
"i'll be back in a few minutes."
[OL g_wij b&k In @ fj@u mIn3ts]
i think it's very odd that the "b" in "be" is changed and the one in
"back" isn't.
> -Josh
Robert Wilson
http://kuvazokad.free.fr/
Yessessë Eru ontanë Menel ar Cemen.
Yessessë ëa Quetta ar Quetta né as Eru ar Eru né Quetta.
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