Re: Finnish KASKI

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:36 PM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKI
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> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:58:22 -0000, "etherman23"
> <etherman23@...> wrote:
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> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "jouppe" <jouppe@> wrote:
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> >> Could this system do away with ü and ï then??
> >> Jouppe
> >
> >Sammallahti's system can be reduced to /i u e o/ with no vowel harmony
> >very simply:
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> What, no /a/?
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> Yes
>
> If you change e to a
> you're not far from my own system,
> *a *i *o *u
>
> Arnaud
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The vowel harmony rule would then require that /a/ be a front vowel.
The system /i u o e/ is more typologically natural than /a i u o/ and
has the requisite rounding and frontness distinctions built in. The
goal was simply to come up with a simpler scheme than Sammallahti's
reconstruction, without making any major change. My system is in
one-to-one correspondence with his so the change is really cosmetic.