Re: [tied] Re: Satem

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 13501
Date: 2002-04-25

Cf. car, garden > "kyar, gyarden" in quite a few accents of Modern English.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: P&G
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Satem

>Lat. ka- -> (c^a ->) French s^a-
>(spelled cha-). There is to my knowledge no phonological explanation
>for this.

I refer you to Rebecca Posner:
  "The French /a/ is pronounced further forward in the mouth than in the
other Romance languages:  it may be this fronting of /a/ that induced the
palatalization of preceding /k/ and /g/, a phenomenon found only in French
and Rhetian...  The fronting tendency of French is often put down to the
influence of the pre-Roman inhabitants of France, the Gauls...."