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CONTRACTION Short vowels other than / e / and long vowels in general do not take part in these contraction alternations , although a few short / al's and / o / ' s do delete in these contexts , especially in stems with an immediately ...
CONTRACTION Short vowels other than / e / and long vowels in general do not take part in these contraction alternations , although a few short / al's and / o / ' s do delete in these contexts , especially in stems with an immediately ...
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The easiest and most obvious way to state the phenomenon in question is simply that an initial - syllable short / e / is eliminated in the pertinent morphological contexts . Now , consider the examples in ( 6 ) : ( 6 ) Present ...
The easiest and most obvious way to state the phenomenon in question is simply that an initial - syllable short / e / is eliminated in the pertinent morphological contexts . Now , consider the examples in ( 6 ) : ( 6 ) Present ...
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... neškišeko ni ( Maximilian 1839-41 , 2 : 591 , 634 ) . Initial short vowels are absent in ' fire ' and ' mountain ' . This probably reflects the voiceless pronunciation of short vowels before phonemic / h / and before a phonetic [ h ] ...
... neškišeko ni ( Maximilian 1839-41 , 2 : 591 , 634 ) . Initial short vowels are absent in ' fire ' and ' mountain ' . This probably reflects the voiceless pronunciation of short vowels before phonemic / h / and before a phonetic [ h ] ...
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