s > r (Iberian)

[Roger Wright]

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In fact, the supposed non-voicing of intervocalic plosives in Mozarabic
(Ibero-Romance spoken in Moslem Spain) was probably a chimera caused by
the Arabic alphabet's application to Ibero-Romance; I think most
specialists are rather dubious about it by now. And the Aragonese
referred to is high up in the Pyrenees, and not characteristic of the
whole of Aragon  -  RW
 
 
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
 
>It's hard to see -s- > -z- separate from -p-, -t-, -k- > -b-, -d-,
>-g-, which must mean that the change was general in most Western
>Romance, but did not occur in Eastern Romance (S. Italian and
>Romanian).
>
>The exceptions in Western Romance are Mozarabic (partially, and as
>far as this can be determined) and Aragonese, or at least part of it.