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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 19 February 2009 - Volume 09<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:roerd096@PLANET.NL">roerd096@PLANET.NL</a>><br>
Subject: Phonology</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi,<br>
I'm not an expert on Danish phonology, but I think to remember that<br>
intervocal -b-, -d-, -g- , also when originally derived from -p-, -t-, -k-<br>
tend to be more or less vocalized. So -p- => -b- => -v- => -u- (!)
etc.<br>
-k- => -g- => -j- or -v/-u- etc. in some cases.<br>
That would mean that they really went through a devoicing process, I guess?<br>
And: that Danish has a striking parallell in French!<br>
<br>
Ingmar<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Thank you for your response to my discussion of aspiration, Ingmar.</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
That was a good point about Danish. The link may be Jutish (if you count it</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
among the Danish varieties). If we are dealing with a continuum or with</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Hanseatic influence is another question. I rather suspect it is a case of a</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
continuum, of an areal feature.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Two things about this:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
1. With the exception of intervocalic *d* (which is realized as a lax</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
interdental fricative, i.e. as a lax ("sloppy") [ð]), these
Danish</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
(including Jutish) consonants are not voiced but are
"devoiced" lenis:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
*b</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
* and *g*, usually represented in descriptions as [b̥] ([b_0]) and</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
[gÌ ]([g_0])respectively. So they are essentially unaspirated /p/ and</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
/k/ respectively,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
and they are indeed derived from *p* and *k.* I am contending that,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
technically speaking, they ought to be written *p* and *k* respectivel</span>y.</span></div>
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