[Lingtyp] question about sound alternation/change

Sven Grawunder grawunder at eva.mpg.de
Sun Apr 5 08:00:23 UTC 2015


Dear Eitan, dear all,

with regard to my previous posting, I guess, I need to correct 
something. The Brown etal. 2013 paper reports about correspondences in 
the database, but not about a direction. These are discussed but not 
implied. So, my apologies, I remembered this wrongly. There should be 
more like an equal sign or "<>" between the symbols I had given.
Happy Easter holidays,
Sven



Am 04.04.15 um 12:46 schrieb Sven Grawunder:
> Dear Eitan,
>
> we checked (for our paper on sound changes in Vilela) with a similar
> question the ASJP-database (asjp.clld.org). See specifically the related
> paper of Brown, Holman & Wichman 2013 for sound changes:
> The t͡ʃ > t sound change ranks at the 3rd place among the top 50 most
> frequent changes. c > t would be at rank 7.
> Hope this helps,
> Sven
>
>
>
>
> Am 04.04.15 um 12:32 schrieb Eitan Grossman:
>> 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
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>>
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