From: Torsten
Message: 68535
Date: 2012-02-10
>'Satemoid' how? The thing that separates 'satemization' in the standard formulation of PIE is that it is context-independent, unlike your examples which seem to be classical palatalizations before front vowels.
> How to explain the later "satemoid" palatalizations in Frisian, Old English and French? Substratal influences? In Brazilian Portuguese, palatalizaton works on dentals before <i>, <y>, and particularly in Rio de Janeiro accent: cidade "city", Standard Brazilian Portuguese <sidad^i> : Rio de Janeiro accent <sidaj^(i)>, but in most of Northeastern Brazil <sidadi>; futebol "football", in Rio de Janeiro <fut^bOw ~ fuc^bOw> , but Sao Paulo, <futebOw>.