Friday, January 9, 2009

segment weakening

Consonant weakening:

degemination: tt > t
Frication: t > interdental voiceless fricative > interdental voiced fricative(telugu 'th' is a stop; dont confuse the latter with english th).
voicing: t > d
deletion: d > null

Vowel weakening:

swara bhakti/schwa: a,e,i,o,u > schwa (central mid)
vowel deltion: (apacope and syncope): deletion of final vowel; deletion of internal vowel


Assimilation (to be contd):

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