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y - y - alveo-palatal vocalic glide
Dr. Pike writea: "There was no hes1tat1on about using "Y" for the
vowel-like glide at the beg1nn1ng of syllables, which is similar to
Spanish and Engliah /y/. It ahould be notad, though, that the
Quechua / y/, even in pre-syllabic positions, is slightly lon@Br and
more prominent tban the English or Spanish sound. The Conference
also dacided to use the l.etter "y" in the post-syllabic position.
The evidence that the
non-syl~aJic
element in phonetic
~taij
is
phonemically /Y/, is given elsewhere. This evidence indicated thut
all Quechua non-syllabics were consonants; that all QUSChua syllabico
were vowels, that in the structural pattern CVC, the final coneonant
could be /s/, /1/, /y/, or
/w/,
etc.; the syllablo-final consonant of
1
the firet eyllable in CVCCV could be likewise. The concluaiona
reached by the evidence gained from this atructural situation was
mede further convincing by the fact that post-ayllabic /Y/ acted
exactly like other consonante in the way that
1t
determinad the
choice of variants of suffiX9s Which followed. To the evidence given
earlier, let me add ene further item from Bolivia: There, two
Buffixes are uaed for the plural; / s/ 1o uaed following vowels and
/kuna/
is usad following consonante. Compare /t 'anta/, "bread", and
/t
1
anta-s/, 'breada', with /kundur/ 'candor ' and /kundur-kuna/
'condors
1 ;
note then /kawsey/ 'life' but /keweey-kuns/ 'Uves
1 ,
and
/k:usikey/,
1
joy' snd /kusikey-kuns/ 'joys'.
11
The length and prominence of
fy/
are not exclusively limitad to 8
conditioned position in syllable final, but to 8 lesser extent can
sometimea be notad ayllable initially. The morphological evidence
in oupport of this phonemic inter¡iretetion which can be 8 dducsd for
Cuzco, Bolivia and Andahuaylas was not forthcoming for Ecuador,
inasmuch as the particular suffixes quoted which sppesr in Cuzco have
been eliminated from the Ecuador dialects and
we
did not heve op–
portunity to seek further enes. It II8y be, however, that soma such
morphological evidence could be found if a further study were mede •
11
w-
-
initiOl bilabial vocalic glide
The Conferenoe judgment on thó " seems a sound move to teke.
Dr. Pike writea:
11
The Conferenoe by a very atrong majority pre–
ferred to use
11
w
11
at the beginning of syllables. It seemed that
with considerable current usa@" of
11
w
11
in publications in Peru
(8nd other placee to a lesser extent) and the advanteges inherent
in the single letter representetion rather thon the double-letter
digraph
11
hu
11 ,
the time had come to use the
linguistical~y
preferable
single symbol."
-w
-
final bilab ial vocalic glide
Dr. Pike writea: "For the oylleble-final sound the technical data
is of the
sama
type as for ayllable-finel
fyf,
namely, tbat in post...
eyllabic position, the non-syllabic sound is actually a coneonsnt
and
not
a
vowal, and from the point of view of linguistic representa–
tion of nativa psychology would preferably be written as such, i.e.
"-w
11 •
The disedvantage of ueing
11
w"
in post-syllabic posit1on is
that
it
ia not repreoented thus in Spanish. That ia also trua
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