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Re: [romconlang] Re: [CONLANG] A possible sound change?




On 12 Aug 2009, at 14:04, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
I rather think palatalization and voicing of /s/,
in whatever order, was involved, since else it is
a puzzle why [oh] or [o:] would have become [oi].
The real puzzle is why palatalization was limited
to /s/ or /z/ in final position.


I'm willing to buy it. :) But my question would be, though: What caused palatalization<->voicing of the /s/?

Cheers,
Carl

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