The sound change *s- > n- in Arapaho
The sound change *s- > n- in Arapaho
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阿拉帕霍语中的声音变化*s->n-
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2013
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Guillaume Jacques
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作者：
Guillaume Jacques
摘要S在阿拉帕霍的发音变化在世界语言中是无与伦比的，以前对其进行解释的尝试都未能对其中间阶段做出令人信服的解释。本文提出了两个假设来解释PA*S-和阿拉帕霍n-之间的对应关系，不仅考虑了这个特定的原音素的个别步骤，而且考虑了整个辅音系统的演变。它表明，S在初始位置的变化似乎只是反映了一种非自然的发展：实际上，它可以用一系列自然变化和合并来解释。
Abstract The sound change *s > n in initial position in Arapaho is unparalleled in the world’s languages, and previous attempts at explaining it have failed to produce a convincing account of its intermediate stages. This article presents two hypotheses to account for the correspondence between PA *s- and Arapaho n-, taking into account not only the individual steps of this particular proto-phoneme, but the evolution of the whole consonant system. It shows that the change *s > n in initial position only appears to reflect an unnatural development: it can in fact be explained in terms of a sequence of natural changes and mergers.