<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">The simple answer would be that /h/ is acquiring a labial property from a following rounded vowel, but there are a couple of interesting further<div>issues. Cabecar has three back rounded vowels according to <span style="font-size: 11px;">Margery Peña and others; do you also have the percept of [f] before non-high rounded </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11px;">vowels? What would a phonetic analysis of perceived [f] vs [h] suggest? — is there more of a gradient variation, or a bimodal distribution?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11px;">Ian<br></span><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 19, 2023, at 13:31, Jess Tauber <tetrahedralpt@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Dunno if relevant, but in my analysis of ideophones in Korean, drawn from Samuel Martin's dictionary (which uses the Yale Romanization), I've found that ideophones with initial /h/ split into two setw, one of which patterns with the labial stops, and the other with the velar stops. A similar split seems to apply with initial /s/, with one set associating with initial dental/alveolar stops, and the other with the palatal stops.<div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 3:11 PM Christian Lehmann <<a href="mailto:christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de">christian.lehmann@uni-erfurt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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The above allophony is well known from Japanese. My current problem
is to describe it for Cabecar (Chibchan, Costa Rica). The
conditioning context is almost the same in these languages: What
appears as [ɸ] before [ɯ] (in Japanese) or [u] (in Cabecar) is [h]
otherwise.<br>
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Intuition would suggest that this is an assimilation of what is
basically an /h/ to the features of the following vowel. However, my
phonetics and phonology are insufficient to answer the two obvious
questions:<br>
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<li>What is the phonetic motivation for this distribution?</li>
<li>Is there a phonological feature shared by [ɸ], on one hand,
and both [u] and [ɯ], on the other, which could figure in a
formulation of the assimilation?</li>
</ol>
Let it be said that my phonology was shaped a couple of years ago by
Chomsky & Halle 1968; so I am prepared to be told that this is
of no concern anymore and the fruitful approach is entirely
different. Nevertheless, the two questions may make sense even
outside this particular framework.<br>
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I would be very grateful for help from you phonologists (or anybody
else).<br>
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