Re: CHAT: vowel reduction (was Re: CHAT: A flat minor)

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:02:22 +0300, Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:

> ObConlang: Does any of your conlangs have regular vowel reduction bound
> to stress shift, like in Russian [dOm] - [dV"ma] "house" - "houses",
> ["gOr@t] - [g@rV"da] "city" - "cities"; or (Old) Hebrew [kQ:"Bo:D] -
> [k@Bo:"Do:] "glory" - "his glory", [zQ:"qe:n] - *[z@q@"ne:] > [ziq"ne:]
> "elder" - "elders of"?
>
>Cheers,
>Yitzik
In Rubaga, at least, with open syllables (one of the few places Rubaga
parallels common romance).

The phonetic changes, greatly simplified, are:
stressed  unstressed
[ae]      [E]
[a6]      [6]
[Ao]      [O]
[Ei]      [I]
[Ou]      [U]
[ii]      [I]
[uu]      [U]

The orthographic changes are:
{a}       {a}
{ea}      {e}
{oa}      {o}
{e}       {i}
{o}       {u}
{i}       {i}
{u}       {u}

note -- although both orthographic and phonetic have 7 rows, there's no 1-
to-1 correspondence!