Re: [PEER REVIEW] Mutations and sound changes (longish)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 31, 2002, 18:26 |
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At 09:04 31.10.2002 +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>:
>
> > Well, I've thought a little more about it and decided that
> > Proto-Enamyn did
> > have approximants after all. (They were just hiding in the corner.)
> > This
> > simplifies matters somewhat without adding too much work. All I need to
> > do is
> > figure out how lenition would affect /w r\ j/, if at all. Suggestions?
> >
>
>Not affected, or just disappear. Since approximants are the most 'lenited'
>consonants you can find, it just makes sense that lenition wouldn't affect
>them
>any longer, or that it would make them disappear entirely.
In Welsh, IIANM, initial *w in "strong" position was even strenthened to
/gw/. Those expert in Welsh (or Brithenig :-) can probably confirm or
correct this.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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