Low Vowel Dissimilation

Emily Hawkins ehawkins at hawaii.edu
Wed Nov 13 20:49:22 UTC 2002


John,

If you find out more about the shift, perhaps there will be some kind
of link to the change in Polynesian seen in mai becoming mei in 'good'
maika'i/meitaki.  In Hawaiian we see the change syncronically   maika'i
becoming meika'i in fast speech.

Emily



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