Re: family ( it was a question...)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 25311
Date: 2003-08-25

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
(in message 18642)
> The expected result for família is *famél^a > *fãméie, which is
close
> enough to actual feméie.

Is there any reason for predicting *fãméie rather than *fâméie in
accordance with
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/18207>? (My
published encoding of the rules gives *f1melea, but I believe I can
sort out the other problems myself.)

> A note about accent patterns and their development in Romance.

Which I shall be making great use of! Thanks.

Richard.