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of oyllableo both at the beginning and in the middle of wordo with no

syllabic division in the middle of

/ñf,

but / <JY/,

fpyf,

etc. occur

the middle of words with the syllabic division between the consonante,

so that they represent the normal etructural pattern of Quechua worde

which

may

have a cluster of two medial consonante. Thia gave justi–

fication for wrtting

/ñ/

as a single phoneme, as in Spanish, :r:ether

than

mald.ng

i t parallel to / <JY/, etc.

"Thia aleo eliminated another apparent difficulty with /n/ for there

was soma ouggeetion that phonetic t!)f. and {n). were different phonemee,

on the grounda of allegad minimal peirs likB {BI}Yaf. ve. {anyaf.. It

was demonstrated that theee were not minimel palrs in thet they

differed in more than one respect, namely that in tha first the

syllable division followed the nasal consonant, whereas in the second

it preceded the nasal consonant. .Another difference was thet the

point of articulation in the firet nasal 'll!la velar, but in the second

was alveo-palatal; further, the off-glide of the second was rapid

(as well as being in the B8IIS eyllable ), whereas the /y/ in the first

inetance was more prolongad and conatituted part of a separata

syllable. This allowed a simplifioation of analysis by noting that

with the <JYllable division preceding the nasal

{ñf,

this phonetically

oomplex itero now paralleled the othar phonemically single units and

should

written

{'ñ~

here, oven as it would be written in the same

way becauee of ita atructure at the beginning of worde. It should be

notad therefore, that /y/ 'll!ls a separata consonant, just as H n•s in

/ sy/ and /PY/ in the middle of words. Thi s in turn left tha ve l a r

nasal strictly limitad in poeition to eyllable-final position, not

only in the middle of words, but aleo at the end. Thercupon , under

premiae ene, syllable-initial

~n+

and syllable-final

{9}

were to be

technically united into a single sound unit and written with a single

symbol, namely "n", Thia technical decision

'IIIIB

further supported by

the actual practical experienca of the Conference members which had

previously indicated that it would be eaeier to use only "n" and

''ñ"

and not to write

"5"·"

11 - alveo-palatal lateral (euch ae oocure in C&atilian Spanish),

Dr. Pilm writes:

The advioability of introducing a single phonemic

ey¡Wol was considerad, but i t would eeem to be not yst the time for

such a technical advance, 1nasmuch as the printed ",\

or aome similar

phonetic aymbol

not available in Latin .American fonts, and would

hinde r the easy aproad of the alphabet for that rea son, A furthe r

teohnioal queetion was whather on the other hand this waa really two

phonemes,

plus

~y};

thie ""a anewered in the negativo, tha itero

actually a single phonems which 1a phonetically complex. Ita

analysis 18 arrived at by the identical procedure ueed to show that

/'if/

ene phoneme, not /n/ plus /y/.

r - votced tlap

Dr,

Pike writeat

There wae no eerioua queation as to tha use of this

lettar.

The

phonemtc aymbol repreeants a considerable variety of

phonetic sound•· Sometimos the /r/

a qnick voiced flap like a

aingls medial Spaniah

~rt;

at other times,

is a nap of a similar

type but w1th a alight fricative releaee. Very frequently, espeoially