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Wiese proposes an analysis of assimilation of the fricative to a precedingbackvowelwithin the phonological word.
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Not surprisingly, there is no evidence of lowbackvowelmerger in the region.
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The lowest frequency vowel category, relative to expectation for all coronal categories, was thebackvowelcategory.
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The basic palatal identity of the stop is confirmed by the fact that it is retained even after abackvowel(14b).
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For this reason, it is conspicuous that the most frequent onset in these data occurs with abackvowel.
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The high-frequency criterion was met by selecting from the 1000 commonest adjectives all monomorphemic ones with a front orbackvowelin stressed position.
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This relative similarity in the nationalbackvowelpicture does not suggest a stable back system.
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The study presents evidence that the lowbackvowelmerger has appeared widespread across the state within a single generation.
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Gliding fails when nouns have an intervening morpheme boundary followed by a highbackvowelor when verbs have a stressed high vowel in some form of the paradigm.
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Based on the analysis of these acoustic parameters, the lowbackvowelsystems of participants in this project are classified in one of the following four ways.
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The remainingbackvowel, the unrounded [], can be characterized in terms of its feature value of [+low].
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However, a contrast between front and back rounded vowels, [y] vs. [u], becomes problematic if thebackvowelis fronted too much, because that renders [u] too similar to [y].
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The author ends the chapter with some musings on why the phoneme /c/ has a restricted distri bution by never occurring postvocalically after abackvowel.
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Note that just because a language has only one non-close non-openbackvowel, it still may not be a cardinal mid vowel.
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