Re: Proposal: Sound Change Documentation Project
| From: | Tristan <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 27, 2002, 10:57 |
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On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 16:19, Muke Tever wrote:
> From: "Peter Clark" <peter-clark@...>
> > I know the Great English Vowel shift, Grimm's Law, and a couple of
> others,
> > but not much more than that. This is a pretty limited field to get ideas for
> > sound changes. What changes to r, and what does r change to?
>
> Hehe... /t/ and /d/ and /G/ and /X/ and /4/ and /r\`/ and /r\/ and /l/ and /z/
> and /Z/ and /h/ and /x/ change with /r/.
> Yeah I know it's cheating that half of them are rhotic to begin with ;p
>
> (Bonus points: give examples.)
Well, there's also [z]>[r] in Latin and Old English among others hence a
word like /wese/ [weze] became a word like /were/ and eventually MnE
'were'. (Do note my 'like's in there; I don't know if that was the right
word or not.) This process is known as 'rhoticism' from the Greek letter
for <r> (being 'rho').
BTW: I like this idea very muchly.
Tristan
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