Re: vowel harmony
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 24, 2003, 10:47 |
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At 11:16 19.6.2003 -0700, JS Bangs wrote:
>Andreas Johansson sikyal:
>
> > Quoting BP Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> >
> > > This assymetrical system was made symmetrical by merging /i y/, /e 1/
> > > and
> > > /o Q/, giving the symmetrical:
> > >
> > > i 1 u
> > > & a Q
> >
> > Isn't there supposed to be a universal saying that the number of back-front
> > distinctions is never greater than the number of height ones? If so, do you
> > have any justification for breaking it, or do you just live by my maxim
> that
> > rules wouldn't be any fun without exceptions?
Something like that, yes! :)
>Under most analyses (perhaps all, actually), central vowels are not a
>separate backness from back vowels. In terms of features, I would describe
>this system thus:
>
>-back | +back, -round | +back, +round
>------------------------------------------
> i | 1 | u
> & | a | Q
This is indeed a possible analysis for classical Sohlob,
but most users of that language are actually L1 speakers
of related but different dialects which either have
developed rounded front vowels or merged /1/ with /i/,
so their pronunciation is different.
*My* pronunciation is different still !
/BP 8^)
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