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** low vowels as related to rounding harmony
** low vowels as related to rounding harmony
* The 9th vowel, phonemic?
* The 9th vowel, phonemic?
* Figure out the stress system


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Revision as of 17:06, 16 June 2007

What to look at:

  • Rounding harmony systems
  • How far through a word harmony spreads
  • Monopthongisation — phonetic and phonological
  • Tonogenesis
  • Acoustic properties of vowel system
    • [reduction and diphthongisation of] high vowels (Russified in Bishkek, Kazakhified in Talas?)
    • low vowels as related to rounding harmony
  • The 9th vowel, phonemic?
  • Figure out the stress system

By:

  • Age
  • Urbanisation (city, village, steppe)
  • Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))
  • Tribe, apparently
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