Re: First Post and Proto-Conlang rough sketch

Jason Monti wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:04:36 -0800, Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...> wrote:
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>> Historical Changes:
>>   little grammatical words become affixes
>>   e > o / _Cu
>>   o > 0 / VC_CV
>>   V > 0 / #_C or C_# (except in single-syllable words)
>>   C > 0 / #_C or C_#
>>   voiced fricative > 0 / _#
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> Wow! That's actually far fewer steps than I thought it would take.
>
> I did some thinking after my last post as well. I had speculated on earlier
> stages where words were CVC and CVCV, and that the phonology was all
> voiceless, the intervocalic Cs become voiced. However, this doens't explain
> the rise of initial voiced Cs.
>
> C = Voiceless Consonant
> G = Voiced Consonant
> @ = schwa (X-SAMPA)
> V = Vowel
>
> 1. CVC > 2. CVC > 3. CVC > 4. CVC
> 1. CVCV > 2. CVGV > 3. CVG@ > 4. CVG@
> 1. VCVC > 2. VGVC > 3. @GVC > 4. GVC
> 1. VCVCV > 2. VGVGV > 3. @GVC@ > 4. GVG@
>
> 1. original stage
> 2. intervocalic Cs voice
> 3. V > @ / #_C or C_#
> 4. @ > 0 / #_C
>
> Is that okay? Or is that unrealistic?
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That looks pretty realistic to me.