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Re: palato-alveolar affricate

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, January 22, 2001, 23:43
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> Not sure... seems to me that it's quite a big change though -- "g" and "k" > are velars, quite far back, but palato-alveolars are towards the front, > between the alveolars and the palatals.
It happened in Italian, e.g., /kEntum/ -> /tSEnto/ -- ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42