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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 19 February 2009 - Volume 03<br>
===========================================</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: <span class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span> <br>

Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Phonology"</span><br>
<br>
Beste Ron,</p>



<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You wrote:</span></p>

<ol style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">I don't think we
     can tell from which varieties this supposedly areal feature of aspirating
     only stressed syllables (shared by Danish, Low Saxon and American English)
     originally emanated. I guess it is not impossible that it was an areal
     feature already at the time when Saxons (then living at the mouth of the
     Elbe river), Angles (living in what is now Schleswig) and Jutes (living
     just north of there) emigrated to Britain and that they took it with them
     where it may have survived in certain English dialects, possibly in
     Wessex. I'm not too sure about it being due to a Celtic substratum,
     because I would expect it to be more wide-spread in Britain
     then.</span></span></li></ol>



<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></span></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From what I
read, proto-Celtic had no aspiration to speak of. </span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Only
"recently" (c. 500 AD), insular Celtic started to develop the
feature. Maybe precisely because of Saxon influx?</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>





<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Luc
Hellinckx<br></span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>