Re: Time to play Identify Those Phones, and a bit of a pharyngeal question
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 2, 2000, 3:54 |
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:41:49 -0600 Eric Christopherson
<raccoon@...> writes:
> Also, what general effects do pharyngeals have on surrounding
> vowels? I
> remember reading that [i] became [E] and [u] became [O] in
> pharyngeal
> environments in some language, but I'm not sure. An explanation of
> why they
> are influenced that way would help as well. Thanks!
>
> Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo suHnus
> raccoon@elknet.net
.
Well, in Hebrew, the pharyngeals /H 3/ (and word-final /h/) don't really
affect surrounding vowels that much, they just drag the vowel /a/ along
with them. Most of the time, this just amounts to an epenthetic /a/
before, such as /Somer/ ShMR vs. /Somea3/ ShM3, and /rox/ RVK vs. /noaH/
NVHh. Sometimes, verb forms like the pattern ..._e_et becomes _a_at when
a pharyngeal is involved: /SomErEt/ ShMR vs. /Soma3at/ ShM3.
-Stephen (Steg)
"speak softly, and carry a mean monkey." ~freestyle by jake