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Re: [bpfk] camxes and syllabification in zi'evla

John Cowan, On 26/10/2014 17:49:

I also believe that the attempt to prescribe allophony, even unconditioned
allophony, was also a mistake.


In practice, yes, tho not necessarily in principle.


We should have said "Six vowels, 17 consonants, these are the
normative forms, how you talk is up to you as long as your
interlocutors understand you."


Really six vowels rather than seven? What about the buffer vowel. The failure to assign a normative form to it was a mistake, I think. (FWIW I'd have given /y/ the normative value [y] and /%/ the normative value [@], swapping the values when the phonemes are adjacent to /i, u/.)

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