Re: [tied] Germanic Consonant Shifts

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:52:31 -0700 (PDT), Sean Whalen
<stlatos@...> wrote:

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>--- Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:20:29 -0700 (PDT), Sean
>> Whalen
>> <stlatos@...> wrote:
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>> >C-sonorant-continuant > -aspirate / _ C-aspirate 2
>>
>> What is the use of this one?
>
> It doesn't change anything for this set of rules
>considered all at once but it's likely a long time
>passed between this and the next relevant rule.

That doesn't make it less unnecessary.

> At the stage it takes place there would be a
>distinction between voiceless, voiced, and voiced
>aspirated. The aspirates would devoice before
>voiceless

Creating a fourth category?

>and then deaspirate (bhranghtas>bhrankhtas>
>bhranktas) so the distinctions would become erased
>before the unmarked series.

In a system without voiceless aspirates (without distinction
between voiceless aspirates and non-aspirates), /gh/ would
have been devoiced to /k/ by a single rule.



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