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Re: Kalini Sapak bits (or How to buse the letter "X" ...)

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 21:10
At 3:33 PM -0500 11/14/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote: >>/yawal/ "star (ACC)" is ['jQwal] >>/yiwal/ "starrier" is ['jywal] > >These seem unnatural to me. Umlauts like this usually involve >anticipation, but [a] is not rounded, so I wouldn't expect >it to round preceding [a] to [Q] or [i] to [y]. >Otherwise all looks good!
I think the idea is that the glide triggers the assimilation. So in /yawal/ and /yiwal/ the /a/ rounds to [Q] and the /i/ rounds to [y] in anticipation of the glide [w], not to the following vowel. Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we must learn both arts." - Thomas Carlyle