Re: palato-alveolar affricate

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:43:58PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: palato-alveolar affricate
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> "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.
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> It happened in Italian, e.g., /kEntum/ -> /tSEnto/
And loads of other languages, including English:

/ka:zj@/ > /k'e:z@/  > /tSi:z/ (cheese) (k'=palatalized k, because of
following front vowel)
/ki:ld/ > /k'i:ld/ > /tSaild/ (child)
/kirk/ > /k'irk/ > /tSr=tS/ (church)
etc.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo