l vs. s, sh?

[Dworkin, Steven]

The Latin clusters [pl-]. [kl-] and on occasion [fl-] evolved in Old Portuguese to an voiceless palatal affricate represented by <<ch>> which later underwent deaffrication and became the unvoiced palatal sibilant of modern Portugese.  The original affricate articulation is still preserved in some northern dialects. It is also possible that the palatal affricate was the original result of these Latin clusters in Hispano-Romance.
Steve Dworkin


On 3/30/11 5:12 AM, "Wright, Roger" <Roger.Wright at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:




Many Latin words beginning with [pl-] or [kl-] became Portuguese words beginning with the unvoiced palatal sibilant (a symbol I can't e-mail, but as in the "sh-" of English "shop"); e.g. Latin PLAGAM > Portuguese "chaga" ('wound'), CLAVEM > "chave" ('key'). The Castilian Spanish equivalents used to have the palatal lateral (roughly = the "lli" in English "million"); "llaga", "llave"; though these have since delateralized in many geographical areas.
RW

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Subject: [Histling-l] l vs. s, sh?

Hi folks. I've got a question- is historical connection between laterals and sibilants/shibilants common in the languages of the world? I've seen this type of thing as a sound symbolic alternation in a number of different families, but am ignorant about its appearance in comparisons when such alternations are not evident.

In Interior Salish (Kuipers) *t'ak'l(a) refers to packing up provisions for a trip- the Yahgan equivalent is ta:kasa-

Then I.S. (under root *tl'aq to prick, pin, skewer, stick in) there are forms that point to *tl'aq-ana7 for pocket, sack, bag. The Yahgan equivalent here is gvsanux a bag, sack, pocket.

In both examples the Yahgan form has the sibilant where the Interior Salish has instead the lateral (either as phoneme or feature).

Jess Tauber
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