[B-Greek] Pronunciation of nasal+stop combination
Kimmo Huovila
kimmo.huovila at helsinki.fi
Tue Aug 5 11:40:03 EDT 2008
Voiceless plosives /p,t,k/ were increasingly voiced after nasals in the
Hellenistic and Roman periods, according to Horrocks*. He also
claims that the voiced plosives /b, d, g/, retained a plosive pronunciation
after nasals when becoming fricatives in other environments. These processes
lead to the same pronunciation for NT and ND. Do we find a lot of
interchanges between these two and if so, when?
When did GG and GK start to be pronounced the same?
Kimmo Huovila
* Horrocks, Geoffrey. Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers. Page
112
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