Re: me and my languages

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:

> DIALECTAL    Puwo         gætatherasayonæti.
> (Önopales)         boy.DAT  see.father.TR.3SgPfRe.S
Doh.  That should be "gætætherasayonæti".  The Önopales
dialect has limited vowel harmony:  back vowels in the syllable
before a syllable with a front vowel (like /na/ in <-næti> above)
are fronted.  I believe that in this dialect, the [æ] is also a phoneme
/æ/.

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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