From: draqonfayir@juno.com
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 08:38:38 EST
On Tue, 27 May 2003 13:46:14 -0700 Anton Sherwood <bronto@pobox.com>
writes:
> Jeffrey S. Jones wrote:
> > Anyhow, one point of possible interest is that some nouns and
> adjectives
> > change quality of the stressed vowel in the plural. Examples:
> > --- la flur, las flors;
> > --- l tor, lus tars;
> Is this the outcome of a sequence of regular shifts, or did you just
> think it was cool? ;)
> I haven't come up with a plausible sequence that results in both
> flore>flur and torres>tars; the raising and lowering forces tend to
> undo each other.
-
The double consonant vs. single consonant following the vowel could
possibly affect it.
-Stephen (Steg)
"dos iz nit der teg."
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