Re: [PEER REVIEW] Mutations and sound changes (longish)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 31, 2002, 7:12 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> How did this happen? I could see a z -> dz -> ts chain, but I have difficulties
> on having the fricative getting spontaneously a stop onset. Generally the order
> goes stop -> affricate -> fricative. I don't remember ever seen the opposite
> order...
Japanese merged /Z/ and /dZ/ into /dZ/, and merged /z/ and /dz/ into
what I think is /dz/, but most sources say is /z/ (it sounds like an
affricate to me sometimes, maybe free variation?)
I seem to remember that some New Guinea languages are reconstructed with
a /s/ -> /t/ change.
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