Re: [tied] Suffixes and the Glottalic Theory

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> Italian of course has both voiced and voiceless geminates (the

primary

> feature being length, not strength). Whether [d:] and [t:] are

likely

> to merge kind of depends on the rest of the system, I think. In a
> system like the Italian or Old Irish one (with /t/, /d/, /tt/,

/dd/),

> we might expect (between vowels) a development /tt/ > /t/, /dd/ >

/d/,

> /t/ > /T/, /d/ > /D/. Brythonic and most of Western Romance had a
> three way system /tt/, /t/, /d/, which was resolved as: /tt/ > /t/,
> /t/ > /d/, /d/ > /D/, also pretty much as expected. I don't see any
> natural way a system /tt/, /t/, /d/ might develop into /d/, /t/,

/dh/.

In Welsh, /tt/ > /þ/, not /t/.

Richard.