Long vowel notation

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

David,
	The sound is definitely two syllables, much different from the sound  
of a long vowel.
John

On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:20 PM, David Wright wrote:

> Estimado John:
>
> Thanks for your input. I have one doubt:
>
> 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.
>
> Saludos,
>
> David
>
> ******************************
> Listeros,
> 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".
> John

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