Re: Vowel Harmony Q

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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