From: stlatos
Message: 70702
Date: 2013-01-14
>Linguists have called many features "expressive" when they don't understand them.
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" wrote:
> >
> > I can't separate txiki = small from c^íki = small Bur;
> >
> > They sound the same and mean the same thing.
> >
> But Basque tS- /tx/ (as well as c- /tt/) is most often the result of
> *expressive* palatalization, so the comparison is phonetically impaired.
>