Re: Further Questions on Phonology
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 17, 2002, 16:12 |
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At 06:40 2002-06-17 -0400, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> >I was wondering if it was reasonable to have a language that makes the
> >distinction between voiced and unvoiced consonants - but does not
>include
> >any voiced fricatives (eg. d, t, b, p, g, k, but only f, s, sh, etc with
>no
> >v, z, or zh).
>
>Well, anything is possible. In my mind, the most likely outcome would be
>dialects that voice certain fricatives under certain rules, but anyone
>could understand anyone else speaking a slightly different dialect.
Not necessarily. Apart from /v/ and /j/, which functionally are
semivowels, Swedish and Norwegian have only voiceless fricatives with no
voicing tendency, at the same time as having a set of voiced stops.
/BP 8^)>
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