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... vowels is towards procope or deletion , so that words like / aku : p / ' coat ' and / iskwew / ' woman ' would both tend to be pronounced as monosyllabic through deletion of the initial vowel . In the Maskuanu or Lower North Shore ...
... vowels is towards procope or deletion , so that words like / aku : p / ' coat ' and / iskwew / ' woman ' would both tend to be pronounced as monosyllabic through deletion of the initial vowel . In the Maskuanu or Lower North Shore ...
Page 138
... vowels . If one writes simply the vowel u , however , it looks as if the pronunciation should be [ udi : l ] , which is of course incorrect . The solution has been to write the prefix as ug , ( as in ugtil ) wherein the g represents the ...
... vowels . If one writes simply the vowel u , however , it looks as if the pronunciation should be [ udi : l ] , which is of course incorrect . The solution has been to write the prefix as ug , ( as in ugtil ) wherein the g represents the ...
Page 293
... vowels are reduced in prefinal syllables . These reduced vowels require some further examination . First , the phonetic ranges of Métchif reduced vowel phonemes is very large with a lot of overlapping . This is represented schematically ...
... vowels are reduced in prefinal syllables . These reduced vowels require some further examination . First , the phonetic ranges of Métchif reduced vowel phonemes is very large with a lot of overlapping . This is represented schematically ...
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