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

Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>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.
Exactly.

                                           Andreas

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