Histling-l Digest, Vol 48, Issue 4

[Paul Hopper]

I think the ? is a replacement for "theta", "th" (dental or interdental
fricative), not a glottal stop.

Paul



On Tue, April 12, 2011 14:34, Guillaume Jacques wrote:
>>

>> I was wondering whether you are aware of cases of phonological change
>> whereby a /?/ would change into a /x/, as in the following examples
>> found in a few Modern Greek dialects:
>>
>> (1)     Cappadocian Greek
>> klo/?/ara 'spindle'     >       klo/x/ara       (realised allophonically
>> as [x]) /?/eliko 'female.N'     >       /x/eliko        (realised
>> allophonically as [?])
>>
>> (2)     Cypriot Greek
>> a/?/asi 'almond'                >       a/x/asi (realised allophonically
>> as [x]) /?/elo 'I want'                 >       /x/elo  (realised
>> allophonically as [?])
>>
>> I would be interested in considering relevant examples not only of
>> diachronic change but also of synchronic bilingual speech effects.
>>
>>
> In Arapaho (Algonquian), an initial h- is inserted at the beginning of
> any word starting with a vowel, though I am not sure whether a glottal
> stop intermediate stage is involved.
>
> For instance, proto-Algonquian *ameθkwa 'beaver' > hébes (compare for
> instance Ojibwe amik)
>
> See Ives Goddard 1974 (in IJAL, who omits the initial h- in the
> transcription since it is predictable; there are no words starting with a
> vowel in the language) and Marc Picard 1994.
>
>
> Same phenomenon in Hochank (or Winnebago, Siouan), h- is inserted in
> words starting with an initial short vowel e.g. proto-Mississippi Valley
> Siouan *is^tá > his^já 'face' (compare Lakhota is^tá 'eye'). cf. the
> unpublished Comparative Siouan Dictionary.
>
> Guillaume Jacques
>
>
>
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Paul J. Hopper
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
and
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School of Linguistics and Literature
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
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