21.920, Qs: /f/ to /theta/ Sound Changes

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Subject: 21.920, Qs: /f/ to /theta/ Sound Changes

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Date: 22-Feb-2010
From: Ryan Bennett < rbennett at ucsc.edu >
Subject: /f/ to /theta/ Sound Changes
 

	
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:50:49
From: Ryan Bennett [rbennett at ucsc.edu]
Subject: /f/ to /theta/ Sound Changes

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I've been working on a project involving perceptual confusability 
between /f/ and /theta/ in various contexts. One of the starting points of 
this project was the observation that diachronic /theta/ to /f/ sound 
changes are well-attested (e.g. many current world Englishes), but /f/ 
to /theta/ sound changes seem to be non-existent.

So, I'm curious whether anyone knows of any examples of a diachronic 
/f/ > /theta/ change, in any phonological environment. I would also be 
interested to hear about any synchronic /f/ ~ /theta/ dialect variation, 
where /f/ has become /theta/ in the innovative dialect.

Many thanks,
-Ryan Bennett 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonetics




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