Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

From: Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
Message: 30185
Date: 2004-01-28

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, tgpedersen wrote:

> I think palatalised must mean something that can be de-
> palatalised (unlike palatal), it must have a rubber band attached;
> which is: participation in a paradigm in which that sound (velar)
> alternates between palatalised and non-palatal, eg Swedish <ge> (<
> <giva>) /je/ : <gav> /gav/, in Danish depalatalised <give> /gi/ :
> <gav> /ga/ 'give':'gave'. In other words, I think de-palatalisation
> is caused by regularisation and nothing else.

What alternation led to depalatalization of the initial of Kjøbenhavn?

Jens