Re: The monumental stupidity of PIE theorists further illustrated

On Jul 25, 1:27 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 25, 10:56 am, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jul 25, 9:37 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What is this "hard sound / soft sound" crap?- Hide quoted text -

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To answer that I need to know if you think "reductive sound change" is
meaningful.

What's it supposed to mean, that it "reduces" the number of letters
you spell it with? Of course it isn't "meaningful."

we are talking about sounds, not letters.

here are some examples of palatalization I picked up from the web:

start quote:

The t of question and nature are pronounced as ch, or the d of soldier
and procedure sound like j. As these examples suggest, in English
orthography, palatalization is often indicated by a following i or u.
An example from casual speech can be found when what are you up to
comes out like whacha up to

end quote.

To me these are reductive (of atriculatory effort) or softening
(replacing hard sounds by soft sounds) sound changes and would tend to
occur naturally in spoken language and the reverse changes would be
unnatural and rare.
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