[Lingtyp] question about sound alternation/change

[Ian Maddieson]

I believe that in Korean coda affricates are simplified to plosives: I think this is a quite common
change across languages in the Asia-Pacific region.

Ian Maddieson

On 4 Apr 2015, at 05:12, Guillaume Jacques <rgyalrongskad at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Blackfoot, proto-Algonquian *c^, *r, and *s^ merge together with *s as s- word-initially, and together with *θ and *t as -t- word-medially.
> 
> 
> 
> 2015-04-04 13:02 GMT+02:00 Olle Engstrand <olle at ling.su.se>:
> In a small, half forgotten data base of historical sound change I find ʧ > t for Proto-Wintun (>Patwin; Shepherd 2005: 5-7), and for Proto-Algonquian (> Blackfoot; Berman 2006: 365). But I don’t know whether this is a  reliable reconstruction at all. 
> 
> Olle Engstrand
> Prof. em. of Phonetics
> Stockholm
>    
>> On 04 Apr 2015, at 12:32, Eitan Grossman <eitan.grossman at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I'm interested in the extent to which synchronic alternations or sound changes like [c] > [t] are common (or not). The palatal 'input' could also be an affricate [t͡ʃ], the important thing being that the result is a dental or alveolar [t]-like segment.
>> 
>> If anyone has examples of such a process, whether as a synchronic alternation or as a documented or reconstructible sound change, I'd be very happy to hear about it, and to post a summary.
>> 
>> Thanks and happy holidays to all!
>> 
>> Eitan
>>  
>> Eitan Grossman
>> Lecturer, Department of Linguistics/School of Language Sciences
>> Hebrew University of Jerusalem
>> Tel: +972 2 588 3809
>> Fax: +972 2 588 1224
>> _______________________________________________
>> Lingtyp mailing list
>> Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
>> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Lingtyp mailing list
> Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Guillaume Jacques
> CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO
> http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques
> http://himalco.hypotheses.org/
> http://panchr.hypotheses.org/
> _______________________________________________
> Lingtyp mailing list
> Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp

Ian Maddieson

Department of Linguistics
University of New Mexico
MSC03-2130
Albuquerque NM 87131-0001




-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/attachments/20150404/ddb4c2f7/attachment.htm>