The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

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

> The idea is that from a binary
> alternation it is possible to generalize/regularise in two ways,
> which will give rise to a 'shibboleth relationship' between the

two

> alternatives, which then will spread to the rest of the language.

In

> the given case, the depalatalisation that was made presumably by

the

> large urban German-speaking population in Denmark in order to
> overcome the difficulties in verbal etc inflection, spread from

there

> to all palatal velars, also that of <Kjøbenhavn>.

So your claim that palatal consonants can only be depalatalised if
they are part of a paradigm in which palatals alternate with non-
palatals is now broadened so that depalatalisation can also occur
without this restriction. I believe that.

Jens