Q: references on diachrony of deretroflexion

[Edith Pineda-Bernuy]

Dear colleagues,

I’m currently looking at possible diachronic processes of deretroflexion of affricates. In particular, I’m interested in the change from [ĉ] (affricate retroflex) to [t] (coronal stop). Is there more evidence supporting the direction from affricate retroflex to stops or the other way around (retroflexion)?

Any references on the topic will be welcome, specifically those involving cross-linguistic evidence of these changes.

Thanks very much for your assistance.

Edith Pineda-Bernuy
Australian National University

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