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Re: Babel text in Spanzhol

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, April 5, 2004, 17:21
Just clarifying myself . . .

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:02:43PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Affricativization (verbing weirds language!)
Well, I guess that was more of an example of verbization weirdizing language . . .
> A response to the English-speakers' aspiration of what are in native > monolingual Spanish unaspirated stops, perhaps?
By "response to" I meant "development of" . . .
> I don't know where <siedzha> comes from; if <tierra>, it seems > a bit inconsistent with the rest of the shifts. I'd expect <tsiela> or > maybe <tshela> or some such.
I understand that it would be maintaining the /r/ vs /r:/ distinction; I just feel that [r] -> [dZ], while reasonable on its own, seems unlikely to coexist with [4] -> [l]. But it is just that, a feeling, not based on any sort of research. -Mark