Re: Hospitable/hostile (Was: Dipping my toe in the water)

> Date:         Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:49:04 -0500
> From: Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
>
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:43:19 -0000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
> wrote:
> >French /d2/: not too weird, but I'm too lazy to look up how it came to
> >have a front rounded vowel.
>
> duo:s > do:s > dous > d2ys > d2:x > d2h > d2: > d2
Thanks --- I guess that's fronting caused by the /s/. By the way, is
that x an X-SAMPA /x/? I thought that French just dropped consonants
in absolute final position, no bother with intermediate lenitions...

> >Armenian /Erku/: /d/ and /r/ can both be realized as a flap [4], /w/
> >often has some velar constriction, and then an epenthetic vowel:
> >
> >    */dwo/ > [4wo] > [4ku] > /rku/ > /Erku/
>
> Or perhaps dw- > dg_w- > rg_w- > rk_w- > ...
Indeed, a voiced labiovelar is more plausible as the intermediary for
/w/ > /k/ -- I knew I had forgotten something. I haven't been able to
find out what the accepted view is on the order of the changes, but I
still think it looks better if the first stop is changed to something
different before another is introduced:

    */dwo/ > /L*wo/ > /L*g_wo/ > /L*k_wo/ > /rk_wo/ > /rku/ > /Erku/

where /L*/ is some alveolar liquid phoneme that can not be determined
more precisely --- /d/ > /l/ as a direct step may be more common than
/d/ > /r/.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)