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PROFESSOR Georgia Zellou

LIN 1 Homework 7

Examine the cognate sets from Finnish and Hungarian, below. Take the Finnish forms to be representative of an older form of Finno-Hungarian. Finnish

Hungarian

Gloss

a. ete

el

“before”

b. pato

fɔ l

“wall”

c. tuo d. tætæ

toi tel

“take” “fill”

e. puu

fɔ

“tree”

f. piti

fel

“long”

g. lapi

alapos

“through/ deep”

Questions: 1. There are two consonant sound changes that occurred in Hungarian represented in the data above. What are the sound changes? Finnish —> Hungarian p—> f t—> l

2. Pick one of the sound changes you discussed in Question 1. Look back at the slides and review the difference between a conditioned and unconditioned sound change. Is this a conditioned or unconditioned sound change?

T—> l is unconditioned because it changes in all environment...