Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 54828
Date: 2008-03-07

Does this have to do with the east/west division in
Catalan?
If so, what's the basis for this division?
Is it Castillian influence to the west? Pyrenees
influence to the east? Occitan influence to the east?
A combination of all three? Something else?


--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:
. . .
>
> Gemination before a resonant is quite common. A good
> example
> is Catalan <poble>, <segle>, pronounced /pobble/,
> /seggle/
> (or /pople/, /sekle/).
. . .



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