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----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Collier" <petecollier@hidden.email>
To: <romconlang@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 9:47 PMSubject: [romconlang] De-palatisation in Northern Romance (WAS: Northern Romance chronology and phonology)
This has been knocked back and forth a few times, and split amongst variousmails, so I'm going to bring it all back together and summarise here in a table, to see if we're now both/all singing from the same hymn sheet.
[...] A late addition.The advantage to very young children, is they don't speak perfectly. Listening to my lad this morning talking about our next door neighbour Julie ( /dZu:li:/ ), I noticed he consistently pronounces her name 'Droolie' ( /dru::li:/ ). Thinking about that, it struck me that /dr/ is a valid cluster and a much closer approximation to /dZ/ than /d/. Perhaps that would be a better shift? Would it still be as good given that /d/ = /D/ in Gmc, so you'd actually end up with /Dr/ ? The fricativeness does make it a less effective imitation, to my ears.
PMC