Re: Further Questions on Phonology

>From: Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
>Why so complicated? Voiced fricatives take a larger effort to pronounce
>than
>unvoiced. I don't want to repeat the discussion about "laziness" in
>pronunciation, but having lived fourteen years in Amsterdam and out of
>personal
>experience I must say, that it feels rather comfortable. :)
>
Heheh - well - having no formal background in linguistics, I wasn't even
sure such a thing was really a plausible possibility in a language (i.e. to
voice some things and not others), or how such a condition might come
about... I've been thinking about doing an archaic form of the language
anyway (for roots and more realistic derivations in the "modern" form), so I
thought that I might as well consider how the phonology developed as well...
  I guess I should do this anyway, even if my present phonology is a
relatively realistic one...

Heheh - comfort and ease of use is a good thing in a language :)

Andy

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