From: suzmccarth
Message: 3070
Date: 2004-07-13
> > From: suzmccarth [mailto:suzmccarth@...]gets
> > Same in Cree and Tamil, it depends on stress. The vowel can
> > disappear without bothering to use a virama/pulli/ or Cree final
> > (which are not only differentiated by size but can be a whole
> > different set of smaller symbols. The same symbols only smaller
> > seems to be a modern phenomena.)
>
> My hypothesis regarding this has been that spelling has (in this
> respect) remained stable while pronunciation has not. So, the vowel
> dropped, but the spelling isn't changed to reflect it.Yes, of course, but is it possible that the stress patterns, among