Re: dhuga:ter

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:06:51 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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>On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:06:44 -0500, "Patrick Ryan"
><proto-language@...> wrote:
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>>I mean it is easier to understand [G] or [x] hardening to [k] than [?].
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>True, but [?s] > [ks] is certainly not impossible.
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>Do you have an instance of that ?
>In a real language.

I was merely exercising phonetical intuition.

It's not easy to think of the right thing to ask Google, so
the only thing I can come up with is this:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~coetzee/pdfs/Tswana%20post%20nasal%20devoicing.pdf

("nasal hardening" in Tswana: -N [?]V- > -(N) kV-)

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