Re: beyond langauges

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "jouppe" <jouppe@...> wrote:

>
>
> The interesting point is that AFAIK Icelandic has no
> contrastive consonant length, so the "affricate" must be interpreted
> as one phoneme, much as spanish -rr- or Catalan -tll-, not a

sequence.

>
> Jouppe
>

I am outright illogical here if you read this as a statment of
syncronic analysis. What I meant to say is that the devoicing should
have become phonemisized as a contrastive feature at the time when
Icelandic lost contrastive consonant length. And also that
the "affricate" should thus, at least historically, be understood as
one phoneme, not a sequence.

Jouppe