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- From: masa@cs.tut.fi (Ide Masahiko)
- Newsgroups: sfnet.keskustelu.foreigners
- Subject: Re: A question on Finnish phonology
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:40:57
- Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
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- In-reply-to: widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:05:29 GMT
-
- Still pestering around, sorry. :-)
-
- In article <1992Dec21.100529.14320@klaava.Helsinki.FI> widenius@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Widenius) writes:
-
- >>rangat /raNn~at/ [ran~:at]
- >>rannat /raNnat/ [ran:at]
- >>rammat /raNmat/ [ram:at]
-
- >As amusing as your interpretation first seems, I couldn't think of any
- >reason to reject it, if it wasn't for words like 'jungmanni' [jun~man:i]
- >and the poor 'magneetti' [man~ne:t:i] that was already mentioned.
-
- [n~] in these words can be considered to originate from /n~/ (the
- second nasal in /raNn~at/ in the interpretation above), not /N/.
-
- jungmanni /jun~maNni/ [jun~man:i]
- magneetti /man~ne:t:i/ [man~ne:t:i]
-
- >There
- >must be some such words that are not recent loans.
-
- I hope I can find them.
-
- Apart from the counter examples, there should be some reasons
- that the orthodox theory is better than this, I think.
-
- masa
-