On Predicting Voiceless Vowels in Comanche

Comanche voiceless vowels have been analyzed by some authors as phonemic, by others as predictable. This paper reviews the controversy and concludes that voiceless vowels are largely, but not entirely, predictable. Included are several types of data that have received no mention in previous works.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armagost, James L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1985-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/499