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Re: Phonological questions, bunch 2

From:R A Brown <ray@...>
Date:Thursday, October 13, 2005, 19:45
Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting John Vertical <johnvertical@...>: > > >>And I'd be somewhat surprized if stop _phonemes_ other than /?/ were created >>by epenthetic stop insertion. > > > Why? omre > ombre > o~bre > obre seems easy enough to imagine ...
One doesn't just have to imagine it. In ancient Greek, the accusative of "man" (adult male) was _andra_ <-- *anra (cf. Nom. ane:r, Voc aner). In the modern language, the 'official' form is [andra] /antra/ but in some dialects it is [adra] The phonemic status of [d] in MG is controversial; but arguably those dialects have [d] without preceding nasal do have phonemic /d/. -- Ray ================================== ray@carolandray.plus.com http://www.carolandray.plus.com ================================== MAKE POVERTY HISTORY

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