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From: "Christian Zwarg" <chris-zwarg@b...>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:22:19 +0100
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Subject: Re: avarin phonetics
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>Do some phonetic changes force others?
[...]>
>Suppose we had a change: _kw_ -> _k_
>and another: _ch_ (tch) -> _t_

not a good example I guess - these two things could happen independently.
But:

if _kw_ becomes _k_, and there has already been _k_ in the language before,
then the "old" _k_ is likely to change to something else (maybe _g_ or
whatever you like) so that the distinction is kept, i.e. the two phonemes
likely won't sound identical and thus get confused with each other at any
time during the change...