Definitions
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- noun uncountable, phonetics (of a consonant) becoming a
spirant sound - noun countable a particular instance of such change
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Examples
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Friction is caused by the tongue, regardless of voice but it just so happens however that without an example of *-dhdh-, all examples of spirantization in PIE that I'm aware of simultaneously show devoicing.
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009
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Actually, come to think of it... if *ǵʰo originally meant "back (here), (left) behind" then I might get to reckoning that it's a corruption of o-graded *ǵʰoh₁ *s / _# under a common rule of final spirantization.
Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008
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Sure there are examples of single-POA spirantization. *p f is found in Arabic, *k x in Mongolian, etc.
Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008
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Hmm, seems like a short time-limit for devoicing & spirantization then, if they're to happen after Etruscans gain access to the alphabet.
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Most Israelis say bekitá bet rather than the puristic bekhitá bet in the second grade' (note the spirantization of the /k/ in the latter); éser shékel rather than asar-á shkal-ím ten shekels' (the latter having a polarity-of-gender agreement with a feminine numeral and a masculine plural noun); aní yaví rather than aní aví I will bring'.
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