Re: Further language development Q's

 --- Joe <joe@...> a écrit :
> Carsten Becker wrote:
>
> > Hey!
> >
> > I still don't get the hang of developing Ayeri
> into (a)
> > daughter language(s), but if I should ever do
> this, there
> > are two things that I'm wondering about:
> >
> > 1)   How can I get from [4] to /R/, i.e. [X, R]?
> [4] is
> >     alveolar, and /R/ uvular, so at the opposite
> end of
> >     the mouth. Are there any steps in between that
> justify
> >     this change? OTOH, I've heard dialects that
> use [4]
> >     instead of [R]. I've learnt that it's always
> dialects
> >     that develop into another daughter languages.
>
>
> Happened in a Natlang (r>R), anyway.   What more
> justification is needed?
It's fairly simple. German, for example, had (up to
the sixteenth century), [r]. It's still pronounced
that way in some dialects, I believe, and it's also
common in some 'old-fashioned' speech, like operas,
where [r] is seen as more 'melodic'. After about the
sixteenth century, the German [r] shifted to [R],
either because [R] is easier to articulate than [r]
(it is, at least for me), or from influence from
French (this sounds doubtful to me).

At any rate, [r] does require a bit more effort to
properly articulate than [R].

[r\I."gAr\dz]
—S. Williams


	

	
		
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