[Histling-l] histling-l Digest, Vol 5, Issue 3

[Emily Gasser]

According to Wilco van den Heuvel's (2006) dissertation, Biak
(Austronesian, NW New Guinea) inserts a [b] into /mr/ clusters and a [d]
into /nr/ clusters (the latter only in major word classes). So for example
PMP *malip 'to laugh' -> *mbrif*, with regular historical deletion of the
initial syllable's *a. Apparently this is a synchronically active
phonological process: the intrusive consonants are inserted when the
illegal clusters are created over a morpheme boundary, and disappear when
reduplication breaks up a cluster that's present in a monomorphemic form (
*mbrán* 'walk' -> *marándan*, probably from *ma- plus PMP *zalan).
-Emily Gasser

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> From: Martha Ratliff <ac6000 at wayne.edu>
> Subject: [Histling-l] excrescence by regular rule?
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> Does anyone know of a reconstruction in which someone has posited a
> regular change involving insertion of a consonant between two other
> consonants?  I had always thought of excrescence as a sound change that
> operates on individual words in an unpredictable fashion (that is, the
> low-level transitional consonant is phonologized unpredictably), but am
> wondering if there are cases where someone believes it to have operated in
> a regular, rule-governed fashion to an entire set of words.
> I am especially interested in insertions of the ?thimble?/?hombre? type,
> but would be interested in examples of the ?Hampshire? type as well.
> Many thanks in advance!
> Martha Ratliff
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