Re: Proposal: Sound Change Documentation Project
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 27, 2002, 14:23 |
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Muke Tever scripsit:
> Stuff like that might look at universals: are fricatives more common than
> stops
> in the environment we're looking at? then /k/ might be more likely to change
> to /x/...
Au contraire. PIE as reconstructed had gobs of stops and few fricatives:
the history of its descendants has been one of introducing lots of new
fricatives.
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