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on 2/26/02 9:56 AM, And Rosta at arosta@hidden.email wrote: > What about Javier's (did I remember the name right? I only know Rex > and John Schilke on this list) idea, a variant of #2, of: > > <c> = /S/ > <x> = /Z/ > <tc> = /tS/ > <dx> = /dZ/ > <j> = /j/ > > The final step was for <y> = /@/, which Rex objected to because of its > tendency to merge with /a/ in unstressed positions. Possible solutions > to that objection would be: > (a) confine <y> to stressed syllables, OR > (b) make <y> = /y/, any highish front rounded vowel Believe me, I really wanted that schwa. But, like you say, I couldn't allow the possibility of merger with a. And I don't think we want to confine it like that. There is also the idea somebody had somewhere to use 'j' as the palatizer: Tj = /tS/ Sj = /S/ Dj = /dZ/ zj = /Z/ -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/