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Re: Capraian diphthongs and vowel shifts



Sorry for delay...


Muke wrote:

> _^ is just plain X-SAMPA for "non-syllabic", i.e. /oe/
> and /ae/ as diphthongs with an e-type offglide.

OK, added to my notes... ah no, it was on there but faint.


Padraic:

>>
Well, if you have /i/ to /e/, then I suspect the
diphthongs might follow along: /ai/ > /ae/
perhaps to /&/? Course, you could always
introduce a rule that /i/ simply disappears in
diphthongs.
<<

The /a/ would change too, to /o/, giving */oe/. As I've mentioned, I have
reasons to avoid that as a diphthong. But I suppose /9/, already present due
to u-umlaut of stressed /e/, could also come in as a development of /ai/ >
/oi/ > /oe/. Is /9/ is valid development of the /oe/ diphthong? I don't want
to just assume that, despite appearances. The other alternative, I think, is
/o:/.

So aesthetic matters come into play. Which will feel better, that the word
for 1 is _oyns_, _oens_ or _�ns_? 11: _oylf_, _oelf_, _�lf_? "My": _moyn_,
_moen_, _m�n_? "Oak": _oyscu_, _oescu_, _�scu_? "Very": _soy_, _soe_, _s�_?
What looks right for a Med. language? Hmmm.

Remembering that all the "oe"s above are actually oe-lig (curse you, email
encoding glitches), I'm inclining slightly towards the _oe_ solution, i.e.
that *both* vowels shifted, but that conflicts with what I did with /au/ and
/eu/ (to /ou/ and /au/ respectively). /ei/ is rare enough in Gmc that I can
probably just shift it to /a:/, so I'll worry about that later.

Any comments gratefully received.

Jamets

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