From: Rick McCallister Message: 70703 Date: 2013-01-14
Your are right in general about the expressive biz, BUT in Basque, <tx> /ch-/ is often an expressive modification for <z> /s/, I believe,
--- On Mon, 1/14/13, stlatos <sean@...> wrote:
From: stlatos <sean@...> Subject: Re: [tied] potto To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, January 14, 2013, 1:43 PM
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" wrote: > > > --- 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. >
Linguists have called many features "expressive" when they don't understand them.