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adelgado · Joined:Sat 18 Apr 2009 11:16 pm Posts:35

Dan_ad_nauseam wrote:

adelgado wrote:

linguoboy wrote:

Gemination of posttonic obstruents:

[ˌgwɵːˈgwɵːɕːøj]

Contraction of long vowels into high tone:
[ˌgwɵ́ˈgwɵ́ɕːøj]

The modifiers are showing up funky. So [ˌgwɵ˦ˈgwɵ˦ɕːøj]

Devoicing of plosives.

[ˌkwɵ́ˈkwɵ́ɕːøj]

Epenthesis of long fricatives to short fricative + plosive.

[ˌkwɵ́ˈkwɵ́ɕcøj]

Kietl · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:39 am Posts:64

Monophthongization of [øj] to [y].

[ˌkwɵ́ˈkwɵ́ɕcy]

(Is that okay? Technically there's also raising involved...but I'm unsure how to represent it in one step)

Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

Palatal plosives are affricated.

[ˌkwɵ́ˈkwɵ́ɕtɕy]

linguoboy · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 9:02 am Posts:1003

Devoicing of vowels between unvoiced segments:

[ˌkwɵ́ˈkwɵ́ɕtɕy̥]

Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

Devoiced vowels are deleted.

[ˌkwɵ́ˈkwɵ́ɕtɕ]

Kietl · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:39 am Posts:64

Affricates reduced to stops in final position.

[ˌkwɵ́ˈkwɵ́ɕt]

rickardspaghetti · Joined:Fri 17 Apr 2009 2:28 pm Posts:204 Location: Sweden

[ˌkwǿ́ˈkwǿ́ɕt]
Central vowels are fronted.

Kietl · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:39 am Posts:64

[ɕ] shifts to [s] under influence of [t].

[ˌkwǿ́ˈkwǿ́st]

rickardspaghetti · Joined:Fri 17 Apr 2009 2:28 pm Posts:204 Location: Sweden

Kietl wrote:

[ɕ] shifts to [s] under influence of [t].

...and then shifts to θ for the very same reason.
[ˌkwǿ́ˈkwǿ́θt]

Kietl · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:39 am Posts:64

Cluster [θt] becomes [θ:].

[ˌkwǿ́ˈkwǿ́θ:]