Re: potto

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.