Re: Latin -ct- > Romanian -pt-

--- In phoNet@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@w...> wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:38:13 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> <richard.wordingham@n...> wrote:
>
> >A wild possibility is /kt/ > /xt/ > /ft/ > /pt/.

> The step /ft/ > /pt/ in
> Romanian also offers no phonetic problems, although /f/ does not

otherwise

> yield /p/ in Romanian (only in the clusters /pt/, /ps/ < */ft/,

*/fs/).

Are there other examples of this limited change? I couldn't think
of any, which is what bothers me about the idea.

Richard.