Re: Takiyyudin phonology

How interesting-- I hadn't thought that there actually existed a
language with vowel height harmony! Although I suppose given the
number of people on the planet anything I can think of would've likely
been thought of long ago.

My two cents' worth (from Classical Arithide) of vowel height and
roundedness harmony, using the concept of underspecified vowels:

In order of full-quality, high-variant, round-variant and
reduced-variant, they are--
/A/: [a, e, o, @]
/E/: [e, i, 2, @]
/I/:   [i, i, y, M]
/O/: [o, u, o, @]
/U/: [u, u, u, M]

In addition certain consonants exerted a raising influence or rounding
influence on either side of them, though more progressively than
regressively, such that an unstressed /EhE/ sequence is more likely to
be pronounced [ihi] than [@he~@h@] (depending on its position in the
word).

Eugene

On 7/14/06, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> wrote:
> David J. Peterson wrote:
>
> > Perhaps commonly, but not generally.  Here's a link to a paper
> > by Larry Hyman which shows some examples of what I was talking
> > about in my first reply:
>
> This is a fascinating paper, thanks!
>
> It's interesting to see how Kalong treats its /I U/; maybe I'll mess
> around with my vowel specifications so that Takiyyudin does something
> similar. I'm having fun right now building a word generator.
> Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to make it cough up matching forms
> in both colours. (This might matter if I'm going to start making a more
> opaque alternation...)
>
> Here's a trial sentence...
>
> Temulun te'mo'rshe'tso'l.
> T. temur-shE(G)-tsul <-- shE carries obligatory greenness.
> T. relentless-BE-contradictive mood
> "No, Temulun is relentless."
>
> Btw, Tristan - <u> isn't transparent! Blue [u] alternates with green
> [O]; green [u] alternates with blue [U].
>
> --
> Shreyas
>