<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 3/21/01 1:46:34 PM Mountain Standard Time,
<BR>John.Koontz@colorado.edu writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> As far as I can tell Crow has only two degrees of length. High and low
<BR>pitch
<BR>> vowels may be either long or short; falling pitch vowels are only long.
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<BR>> Randy
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<BR>Are there ever cases of two adjacent identical vowels?
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<BR>JEK
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<BR>Yes, you do have cases of adjacent identical vowels. With prefixes like baa-
<BR>'indefinite', the vowels do not merge, but are separated by a slight catch in
<BR>the voice, not quite a glottal stop: e.g., baaa'akiia 'vision', or
<BR>baaa'pchisuua 'something spread, peanut butter or jam'.
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<BR>With suffixes, sequences of identical vowels merge into one long vowel: eg,
<BR>du'usaa 'lay down' + -ak 'same subject' --> du'usaak.
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<BR>Randy</FONT></HTML>