Re: 'Yemls Morphology

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> (some coda consonants were moraic, others weren't; which isn't that unusual,
> cf. Turkish)
Oh!  That makes me feel better about something in Uatakassí.  The
syllable /Ci/ ({ki}) often becomes a moraic /C/ when following a vowel
at the end of a word or before a voiceless consonant.  It behaves like a
coda, e.g., the ending -uki is pronounced [oC], where [o] is the
allophone of /u/ used in closed syllables, so it can't simply be
analyzed as [Ci_0].  However, it's pronounced with the same length as
any other mora, so that -uki is pronounced in the same time as -uu would
be.  However /C/ is the *only* consonant that does this, e.g., -un is
simply [on] pronounced with the same length as -u.

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