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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:51:09PM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote: > Very good reasoning. A couple of points: > rV and yV are not possible as Ceqli morphs because of the phonology rules, > alas. > XI - SA - ZO would be my choice, too, except that they're all three going to > appear a lot as the last element of a compound. Tho unstressed 'a' at the > end of a word is permitted, it is discouraged, lest it tend towards schwa, > which is an allophone of unstressed 'e'. Consequently, from all of this > imput, it seems pretty clear that the winner is XI - SU - ZO I really have to wonder why you made schwa an allophone of 'e'. Sure, it makes 'be' slightly easier to say, but the problem with 'a' is going to keep coming up. -- Rob Speer