Possible phonological changes (was: Rate of change)

[Ante Aikio]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> Well, *s > *t in Samoyedic (whether *s was really /s/ or perhaps
> something like /T/ is a matter we discussed some time ago).  Then, /t/
> before a front vowel palatalizes to /t^/, a sound intermediate between
> /t/ and /k/.  Then it further shifts to /k/ (cf. Egyptian Arabic */d^/
> > /g/).

It was not PU *s (> Samoyedic *t) which became /k/ in Mator, but
Proto-Samoyedic *s (< PU *s´), which was unambiguously a sibilant. But the
development could still have been similar, perhaps via *c´ and *k´ as I
suggested in a parallel mail.

 Regards,
 Ante Aikio