Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:11:55 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>To avoid people searching about the rules Lat > Rom, I give here the
>rule exposed by Miguel for Latin /o/ & /o:/ and its situations when
>become /u/ in Rom.:
>
>1) /o/ > /u/ before /n/, /nC/ ( bun, munte), but not before /m/, /mn/
>( omn, somn). Exception : nume > no:men ( perhaps due numeru > num.r)
>
>I would like to add now that even the word "cumnat" shows that /o/ > /u/
>before /mn/ thing which was excluded initialy by Miguel.

Wrong rule. You need: unstressed /o/ > /u/ (unconditionally).

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