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

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
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