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Re: Phonological questions, bunch 2

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, October 13, 2005, 20:09
Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:

> 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/.
Nice to have one's intuitions confirmed. :) Andreas