Re: English Haplology and Degemination (was meaning of the Germanic

Hmmm, haplology seems to be the basis for English from
England. Anyone who can come up with Chumley for
Cholmondeley --or however it's spelled has a severe
case of rapid vowel movement

--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > Oh, come on. "Prob'ly" is so common that it gets
> recorded by
> pronouncing
> > dictionaries. So is "particu'ly". Of course it's
> hard to distinguish
> > "abrupt haplology" (bVbV --> bV) from "syncope cum
> degemination" (bVbV
> > --> bbV --> bV) especially if the first vowel is
> unstressed, but it's
> > the effect that counts. I've heard "parall'ism"
> more than once, and
> here
> > vowel loss with degemination is unlikely, since
> the haplologically (or
> > should I say "haplogically") lost vowel is full in
> the original form.
>
> This is a different route to the one I had in mind.
> In what follows,
> I will transliterate IPA to X-SAMPA. You are
> describing a development
> from /prQb&b&li:/ (and similar), which leaves the
> intermediate stage
> /prQb&li:/. I was talking of /prQb&bli:/ >
> /prQbbli:/ > /prQbli:/.
> The syncopation is regular in my speech. Notice
> that the degemination
> is happening in a cluster of three or more
> consonants.
>
> Peter Gray's examples of "lib'ry" <library> and
> "Feb'ry" <February>
> need not be haplology - they are parallel to the
> common homophony of
> <secretary> and <sectary>, where /r&/ has vocalised
> (after
> syncopation?) as /&/ (/r/ and /&/ seem to function
> as a
> semivowel-vowel pair in non-rhotic English), and
> then been (further?)
> syncopated. A simpler explanation of "lib'ry" is
> that it is also
> syncopation followed by degemination. <February>
> also has the natural
> development route */febrjU&ri:/ > /febjU&ri:/ >
> /febj&ri:/ > /febri:/.
> The first stage may actually be <February> >
> <Febuary> - the latter
> is a common misspelling.
>
> I don't think "parall'ism" is as clear case as it
> may seem.
> <parallel> may be pronounced as a single foot,
> /"p{r&l&l/, in which
> case /"p{r&l%lIz&m/ (% = secondary stress) and
> /"p{r&l&%lIz&m/ are
> obvious pronunciations of <parallelism>, so
> degemination is again a
> possibility, though less compelling than before.
>
> Richard.
>
>

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