Re: Fwd: Principle of Minimum Energy; Least Effort - p>v | V_V

--- In phoNet@yahoogroups.com, "H.M.Hubey" <HubeyH@M...> wrote:
[Mark:]
Voicing and Frication: aka > agha ; apa > ava

[Richard:]
I'd decompose this into a two step process.

[Mark:]
Why?

[Richard: - new]
Two changes - loss of voicing and loss of plosion. Are there any
arguments against its being a two step process? (Adjustments from
bilabial to labiodental are yet another change, which we are not
discussing here.)


Richard.