<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2995" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006>Estimado John:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006>Thanks for your input. I have one
doubt:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=312044420-25112006>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006>Does the lack of vowel ellision in your examples
produce a result that sounds different from long vowels, perhaps a syllable
boundary between the two like vowels, distinguished by stress? I suppose this
would be harder to hear in the last
example.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006>Saludos,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006>David</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=312044420-25112006>******************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Listeros,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN class=Apple-tab-span
style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2>The use of the double
vowel to represent length can be confusing for variants that tend not to
eliminate one of two vowels that come together at a morpheme boundary. In
Huastecan Nahuatl we have, for example, niitztoc (ni-itztoc), "I am [estar]";
quiittah " (qui-ittah), "they see him-her-it"; mooholinia (mo-oholinia), "it
moves".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>