<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>With regard to reconstructing long vowels for Proto-Siouan, it is probably
<BR>relevant to note that Catawba has a phonemic contrast between long and short
<BR>vowels, but a very different system of accent placement than the two mora
<BR>system in Siouan. In Catawba, accent may fall on either the first or last
<BR>syllable of disyllabic words. On longer words, excluding some
<BR>morphologically conditioned exceptions, accent falls on the penultimate
<BR>syllable if it is long. If it is short, accent falls on the antepenultimate
<BR>syllable. (This accent pattern is very much like the one reconstructed for
<BR>Proto-Northern Iroquoian).
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