Re: English [dZ]

Mark J. Reed skrev:
> On 12/9/05, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
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>>Was it just a spelling convention change?  I thought that words which
>>previously had |j| began to be pronounced with |dZ|; they can't all be
>>reanalyzed spelling-pronunciations, can they?
>
>
> Ack.  Wrong brackets.  I mean [j] or /j/ and [dZ] or /dZ/, not |...|.
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> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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Those words which previously had /j/ are spelled |y| in Mod.Eng.
The sound /dZ/ occurred only post-vocally in Old English, the
modern spelling being |dg|.  Except for a few cases of irregular
derivation from OE /tS/, like _jaw_, Mod.Eng. |j| for /dZ/ is
confined to French and Latin words.  Obviously the Normans also
introduced a new way of pronouncing Latin!

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