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Re: Help on Sound Changes

From:Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 4:16
On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Santiago Matías Feldman wrote:
> Precisely that ending, *-tion, was the one that made > me think of choosing another sound change, because > that ending is very ubiquitous in Romance languages > (well, in English as well). > Or perhaps my impression is because I like that > ending? Maybe it's not so ubiquitous.
One should bear in mind that a lot of the -tio words in modern Romance langs are learned or semilearned; i.e., they borrow more or less directly from Latin, without going through all the sound changes. Thus, you could end up with two suffixes pronounced differently but both derived from -tio, but separately.
> > What if I adopt Latin /k/> Laturslav /g/ in some > contexts, like: dulces (is it like that?) > dulge ('g' > pronounced as /g/)? > That would do away with a lot of /ts/'s.
Similarly, you could make /t/ (or likewise /k/) > /dz/ before front vowels (and/or /j/), if you like that sound. That happened in at least some cases in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. You could specify conditions for when it would end up /dz/ and when /ts/; e.g. single and between vowels, /dz/, but geminate or adjacent to other consonants, /ts/.