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Cowan:
>Vowel buffering, OTOH, is supposed to be for the speaker's benefit,
>which is naljbo at best.

I don't see this.  The phonology is largely designed to make it easy for
speakers not to make errors.  It is morphology and grammar and semantics
that are more listener oriented.

lojbab