From: Brian M. Scott Message: 47351 Date: 2007-02-08
At 6:52:53 AM on Thursday, February 8, 2007, Sean Whalen
wrote:
> Therefore as ju>ji so im>uw here or something similar. Not
> an exact parallel, just a similar change in the opposite
> direction.
I don't really see how it's similar. A change wi > wu would
be similar but in the opposite direction, and I suppose that
iw > uw could qualify, if we take 'direction' in two senses,
but I don't see an obvious phonetic motivation for im > uw;
are you attributing backness to /m/?