Re: [tied] Animate Dual in -h3 (was: IE Roots)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:37:26 +0000, elmeras2000 <jer@...> wrote:

> Why would asyllabic endings like *-s, *-t become voiced *-z, *-d

(at least

> when not sentence final)? I did not address that issue in message

21817,

> but it's not terribly difficult to come up with a possible

explanation.

> The phenomenon occurs at a morpheme boundary (e.g. *pod-z, *to-

d). If

> morpheme boundaries were previously word-boundaries (that's teh

principle

> of agglutination), then perhaps there was some overt prosodical

marking of

> the word/morpheme boundary, such as a rise in pitch, or a glottal

stød.

Do you need word boundaries? I can't help think there was something
similar with the plural -s in English. There are several examples
of fossil /s/ - 'bodice' as opposed to 'bodies', 'pence' as opposed
to 'pennies', 'dice' as opposed to 'dies'. Similarly, the Scottish
pronunciations of 'teas' and 'tease' are reported to be different.

Richard.