| 释义 |
spirantize, v.
[f. spirant n. and a. + -ize.]
trans. To pronounce as a spirant, to make into a spirant. So ˈspirantizing ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1896Academy 21 Mar. 243/2 This was the point in the language at which the spirantising tendency would first attack the χ and the ϕ. 1911Amer. Jrnl. Philol. XXXII. 36 The former [sc. Iranian] is spirantizing language, like the old Germanic. Ibid., The spirantizing of voiceless aspirates in Iranian. 1936Language XII. 247 If with the vowels we may include the semivowels, we note here the Balto-Slavonic palatalizations,..[and] the spirantizing of Latin c (that is, [k]) as it develops into the Romance languages. 1964S. K. Chatterji in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 411 In Bengali, the aspirates ph, bh, are normally spirantized to [ϕ, β]. 1977Word 1972 XXVIII. 252 It cannot be argued that early Guarani might have had an occlusive [d] in initial position and that it would have been a simple matter to spirantize it. |