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12113 below for a discussion of the point. I 'its opening,' might also be interpreted as laJckwt/, since only Ik/, not IkW/, occurs unit finally at most borders, and initial members of clusters are elsewhere phonemes which may occur unit finally. The sequence I .. kV-s • •• 1 has been recorded at nucleus teminal, and thie is considered evidence for the interpretation in the text. For practical orthography, as discussed in Chapter IV, other spellings are better. ' (3) In environments where stop and voiced fricative allophones occur as described in the general discussion above, /p/ is also represented by labiodental allophones of the same articulatory tyPes, as uncommon free variants: h /ap/ [ ••• ap , ...

121 CODagp8DtS. All DOD-vocoids and presyllabic vocoids are con- sonants. 1211 ~ S. Toiceless contiDwmta. ost apparent. 12111 Stops / p, t, 11:, II:w/. he stops are represented principally by allophones produced at bilabial, gingival, backed velar and labialized 3Symbolization of the IlaCrophonemc 1IDiH is OIdtted until those units are described, unless-they are clearly relevant to the discussion. g. [P], represents an unreleased stop; [,] is a voiced velar nasal; [j) is a high close trent unrounded pre-syllabic vocoid; [I) is glottal stop; [3J is lowered Jdd open front unrounded vocoid; [c) is mid open back rounded vocoid.

2) The labialization of those allophones of Ik/ following rounded vowels is easily interpreted as environmentally conditioned, bat the phonetically different labialization of allophones here assigned to /kw/ cannot be so interpreted; note that /k"/ III8Y follow silence and precedes unrounded vowels, bat the allophones in question only follow round vowels. (3) Assignment of the allophones in question to /kY/ would leave that phoneme still lind ted. 'ront and central vowels, and not after lui before 10/.

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