Re: Degrees of comparation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 4, 2001, 22:55 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> e.g., /kja/ -> /kila:/
That was a bad example. /pju/ -> /pilaw/ would be a better example. An
early sound change caused /kj/ -> [C] and /ki/ -> [Ci], so that previous
example is [Ca] -> [Cila:]. But, later sound changes created new
occurrences of [kj] and [ki], so that now /C/ is probably best analyzed
as a phoneme.
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