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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span class="gmail_sendername">From: </span>Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:roerd096@PLANET.NL">roerd096@PLANET.NL</a>><span dir="ltr"></span><span><span></span></span><br>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2012.01.02 (02) [EN]</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><br></p>Happy New Year!<br>
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Funny, our youngest son used to say "leh!" [lE] as a baby, so we told eachother he was asking for milk, in French (lait).<br>
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I doubt though if "puh!" can be called metathesis from "up", why would P be aspirated then?<br>
In Dutch "puh!" is the word children use when sticking their tongue out, to make fun of or ridiculize someone.<br>
So maybe that's how the little rabbi's son is telling you what he thinks of you ;-)<br>
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Ingmar<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">From: R. F. Hahn <[log in to unmask]></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Subject: Phonology</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Lately we have been mentioning phonological metathesis again, namely
triggered by the words sporkel and sprokkel. There are numerous cases of
metathesis amongst the Germanic languages, the Lowlands group included.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
First of all, what are we talking about here?</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Wikipedia (</span><a style="color:rgb(0,0,153)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_%28linguistics%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_%28linguistics%29</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">):</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Metathesis (English pronunciation: /məˈtæθəsɪs/; from Greek μετά-θε-σις,
from μετα-τί-θη-μι "I put in a different order": Latin trānspositiō) is
the re-arranging of sounds or syllables in a word, or of words in a
sentence. Most commonly it refers to the switching of two or more
contiguous sounds, known as adjacent metathesis[1] or local
metathesis:[2]</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
foliage → **foilage</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
cavalry → **calvary</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Metathesis may also involve switching non-contiguous sounds, known as
nonadjacent metathesis, long-distance metathesis,[1] or hyperthesis:[3]</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Latin parabola > Spanish palabra 'word'</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Latin miraculum > Spanish milagro 'miracle'</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Many languages have words that show this phenomenon, and some use it as a
regular part of their grammar (e.g. the Fur language). The process of
metathesis has altered the shape of many familiar words in the English
language, as well.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
The original form before metathesis changed may be deduced from older
forms of words in the language's lexicon, or, if no forms are preserved,
from phonological reconstruction.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Within the context of sporkel and sprokkel, our Heiko mentioned his
child's "acts of metathesis." To further our understanding of this
phonological phenomenon, I really do believe that it behooves us to look
at child's language.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
In actual fact, I wonder if what is at play here is a preference for
more "natural" or "primeval" syllable structures, and I wonder if this
preference is programmed in us (in the form of ease of pronunciation)
and at least in part accounts for cases of metathesis. In other words,
certain syllable structures are "more natural" and possibly more archaic
than otherstructures are perceived as being easiest to pronounce.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Among phonologists, much has been made in recent decades about primeval
syllable structure, and it has been postulated that the structure #CV#
is the mother of all syllable types. (C = consonant, V = vowel, # =
syllable boundary) To put it simply, papa would be more natural than pap
or ap, not to mention arp, parp, palp, pamp, plap, plarp, etc.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Little Jonah, my rabbi's 1+-year old son, tends to throw his arms up at
adults and say, "Puh!" ([pʰʌ]). I interpret this as a metathesized form
of "Up!" ([ʔʌp]). (In other words, he wants you to pick him up.) Would
you agree with this?</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Do you have any further thoughts or inside into the phenomenon of metathesis and "naturalness" of syllable structures?</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Regards,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">
Seattle, USA<b></b></span><br><span></span></div><span><br>----------<br><br></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:roerd096@PLANET.NL">roerd096@PLANET.NL</a>></p>
Subject: LL-L "Language varietiess" [EN]<br><br>I think there may be a connection with what's called dyslexia and
metathesis. Our youngest son, now eight years old, has some difficulties
learning to read properly, the teacher thinks he may be dyslectic.<br>
And in his speech, whether he's reading our just speaking, metathesis
regularly occurs, especially in longer, difficult or 'learned' words.
E.g. navigatie-systeem becomes nagivatie-styseem (car navigation
system), parkeerplaats becomes karpeerplaats (parking place) etc.<br>
Nowadays, this kind of "mistakes" will be corrected in school of course,
but in times that people didn't go to school or even didn't write at
all, whole populations could speak that way. Especially when we realize
that there must have been hundreds of different languages spoken next to
eachother in areas where there are now only a few, and I guess in new
mother language learning processes, there will have occured a lot of
metathesis and other interesting features as well. A good example are
the creole languages, or the differences between the Romance languages
and dialects.<br>
<br>
Ingmar<br>
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Ingmar<br><div>
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