Distance in change

[Frank Rossi]

Further to my earlier posting, I made a mistake in my phonetic
transcription of Romanesco "fio".
The correct version is:

/fiLLo/ > /fiyyo/ > /fio/

My apologies. I was influenced by Rohlfs transcription with "j" (as in
German) = "y" (as in English).

Regards

Frank Rossi
Bergamo, Italy
iglesias at axia.it

[ Moderator's comment:
  Technically, the IPA transcription *should* be [j]; [y] represents the tense
  high front rounded vowel.  I've noted before that we as a group need to agree
  on a particular translation of the IPA to ASCII, in order to avoid confusions
  like this.
  --rma ]