linguistic features

[Patrick C. Ryan]

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Dear Miguel:


-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv at wxs.nl>
To: HISTLING at VM.SC.EDU <HISTLING at VM.SC.EDU>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: linguistic features


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>Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk> wrote:
>

Even Faulkner's small ME dictionary has approx. 113 entries beginning with 3
(vulture) which is generally regarded to have (principally) represented a
rhotic.

Pokorny has approx. 66 entries beginning with a rhotic, and this count does
not include the forms with the root-extensions.

I doubt sincerely whether lack of an initial rhotic can be legitimately be
characterized as a "universal tendency".


>  What we have is
>simply a universal tendency to avoid rhotics (and to a lesser
>degree laterals) in initial position.
>
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>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>mcv at wxs.nl
>Amsterdam

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