Re: Phonological questions, bunch 2
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 13, 2005, 19:45 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting John Vertical <johnvertical@...>:
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>>And I'd be somewhat surprized if stop _phonemes_ other than /?/ were created
>>by epenthetic stop insertion.
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> 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/.
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