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Re: palato-alveolar affricate

From:Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 24, 2001, 4:05
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:43:58PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- > Sender: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> > Poster: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> > Subject: Re: palato-alveolar affricate > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "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/
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. -- Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo