From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60390
Date: 2008-09-27
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From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
>
> My question to the list in general is this: during the
> evolution of any language has a single phoneme ever been
> seen to split into two or more; merge yes, but split?
>
> David
>
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I suppose you mean
one segmental unit becoming a sequence of two segmental units ?
What about some -ww- becoming -gw- in Germanic ?
or dwo > er-ku in Armenian
basically the w seems to have split in -k-u-
Arnaud
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