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

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From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2003 8:55 am
Subject: [phoNet] Re: Fwd: Principle of Minimum Energy; Least Effort -
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> --- In phoNet@yahoogroups.com, "H.M.Hubey"
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> Voicing and Frication: aka > agha ; apa > ava
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> I'd decompose this into a two step process.
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> Why?
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> Two changes - loss of voicing and loss of plosion. Are there any
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> arguments against its being a two step process?

I thought you might be thinking of city-block metric.

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