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Regarding glides, I don't think they should coexist with certain types of vowel combinations. It's too difficult to distinguish the following pairs in connected speech: bua bwa bau baw bai bay bia bya My tendency would be to simply drop the glides, as that would make the rule simpler. Then you could have <w> and <y> for other purposes. (I recall that we tried <w> as a vowel and didn't like the look of it--neither of us being Welsh, I suppose.) Also, do you expect nCnN to be true in practice? If not, why not narrow it down? Try listing all reasonable combinations, then look for a relatively compact set of rules. But I would prefer a more complex set of rules yeilding fewer bizarre possibilities such as /bdomen/ and /kfey/--not to mention the theoretical possibility of horrors such as /ksbqrmnlq/ or /bpbpbpqmqmqm/. Unlike syntax, the complexity of the morphophonemic rules shouldn't have any practical impact on speakers, but only on those who are creating new morphemes, which is not something that has to be done on the fly. -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _______________________________________________________ "When they wired us humans up, they really should have labeled the wires--don't you think?" -- Ed