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Re: sound change question

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 24, 2001, 19:34
Yoon Ha Lee sikayal:

> Quick question: > Is it reasonable to have [c] and [c_h] (aspirated) evolve eventually into > the affricates [dZ] (gains voicing) and [tS]? The change *sounds* > reasonable to me, but I am loath to trust my intuition.
Sounds very reasonable, although the palatalization should probably be motivated by something (a following high vowel or front vowel or [j]). Otherwise it seems very good. Are you going c > g > dZ or c > tS > dZ? It might make a difference.
> > YHL, working on evolving Chevraqis (and eventually more) from Arakis :-) > P.S. Greetings to anyone I've missed greeting over the past week. > Classes started yesterday. 22 credits and I can't decide what to drop!
Good luck! Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young." -G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_