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Re: Vowel Harmony Q

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, January 22, 2004, 14:59
Quoting rob_nierse <rnierse@...>:

> David Peterson wrote: > > There are not a small number of vowel systems that have just four > > > vowels,where the four vowels are /a/, /e/, /i/ and /o/. > > My conlang Tlapóa has the same vowels and has some affixes that work > with vowelharmony.
Does the notation /o/ suggested that there simply is no high back vowel? I'd expect the vowels of a four-vowel system to gravitate towards [i E A u] or so, to maximize distinctiveness. Andreas

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Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>