Re: Digest 2 Apr
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 23:14 |
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> Muke Tever sikayal:
>
> > > I like phonology, but I don't know enough about historical phonology to
> > > be entirely comfortable with the sound-changes I devise.
> >
> > Hehe. My langs tend to have regular but likely-implausible sound changes.
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> I don't know. There's some pretty weird stuff out there, like s > r,
> which is attested multiple times, but which I can't justify in my own
> mind.
That reminds me--how/why, insofar as the question is answerable, did
Latin v [w] go to v [v] in the Romance languages (or most of them, I
think)? A friend of mine who sings (ecclesiastical) Latin sometimes and
has had Spanish was wondering and I don't know the answer.
YHL
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