Re: CHAT: vowel reduction (was Re: CHAT: A flat minor)
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 23, 2002, 19:13 |
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This is the corrected version below. Sorry for posting twice.
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:02:22 +0300, Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...>
wrote:
> ObConlang: Does any of your conlangs have regular vowel reduction
bound
> to stress shift, like in Russian [dOm] - [dV"ma] "house" - "houses",
> ["gOr@t] - [g@rV"da] "city" - "cities"; or (Old) Hebrew [kQ:"Bo:D] -
> [k@Bo:"Do:] "glory" - "his glory", [zQ:"qe:n] - *[z@q@"ne:] >
[ziq"ne:]
> "elder" - "elders of"?
>
>Cheers,
>Yitzik
In Rubaga, at least, with _historically_ open syllables (one of the few
places Rubaga parallels common romance).
The phonetic changes, somewhat simplified, are:
stressed unstressed
[ae] [E]
[a6] [3]
[Ao] [O]
[Ei] [I]
[Ou] [U]
[E3] [I]
[O3] [U]
[ii] [I]
[uu] [U]
[i@] [I]
[u@] [U]
The orthographic changes are:
{a} {a}
{ea} {e}
{oa} {o}
{e} {i}
{o} {u}
{i} {i}
{u} {u}
Note that there's no 1-to-1 correspondence between orthography and
phonetics. Also, I'm thinking of a change to increase the Maggelity: a
choral version of Rubaga, where the pronunciation depends on the key
signature (e.g. A flat minor).
Jeff J.