Re: Phonological questions, bunch 2
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 9, 2005, 12:37 |
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Shreyas Sampat wrote:
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>Fortition occurs in places, and also epenthetic stop insertion (see
>Lat. |homine| > Sp. |hombre|). I wouldn't be surprised by a sound
>change where clusters required a stop, so changes like /sl/ > /tl/
>occur.
But does fortition ever create *new* phonemes?? All examples I know of
create stops which already exist in the language.
And I'd be somewhat surprized if stop _phonemes_ other than /?/ were created
by epenthetic stop insertion. Of course, /?/ is very good material to craft
other stops out of...
John Vertical
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