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consonant, <strong>and</strong> this consonant cannot be a glottal stop (<strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> glottal stop will be<br />

considered in <strong>the</strong> next section). In <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> a high vowel, <strong>the</strong> schwa may alternatively<br />

become . If <strong>the</strong> schwa is followed by a morpheme with as <strong>the</strong> nucleus <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first<br />

syllable, <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> schwa becomes . For example, consider <strong>the</strong> case where <strong>the</strong> infinitive<br />

prefix is attached to a verb:<br />

(47) (L (L (L (L ~ L L L L ~ (L (L<br />

‘to dance’<br />

( ( ( ( ~ ( ( ( (<br />

‘to cry’<br />

(K (K (K (K ~ K K K K ~ K(K K(K K(K K(K<br />

‘to burn’<br />

(@A (@A (@A (@A ~ A(@A A(@A A(@A A(@A<br />

‘to chop’<br />

(I (I (I (I<br />

‘to be’ (no alternation)<br />

(@ (@ (@ (@ ~ (@ (@ (@ (@ ‘to cultivate’<br />

(= (= (= (=<br />

‘to go’ (no alternation)<br />

(J (J (J (J ~ (J (J (J (J<br />

‘to forge’<br />

These alternations result directly from <strong>the</strong> LVS rule given in (4) in Section 6.1. Note that<br />

<strong>the</strong>re is no assimilation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> feature [low].<br />

In verbs which begin with a sequence <strong>of</strong> a semi-vowel followed by an =, or which<br />

contain a secondary articulation in <strong>the</strong> first syllable, it is <strong>the</strong> quality <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> semi-vowel or<br />

secondary articulation which is spread, ra<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong> quality <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> nuclear vowel:<br />

(48) (M= (M= (M= (M= ~ (M= (M= (M= (M= ‘to cut’ (cf. (MK (MK (MK (MK ~ K(MK K(MK K(MK K(MK ‘to see’)<br />

(= (= (= (= J( J( J( J( ~ A(= A(= A(= A(= J( J( J( J( ‘to rest’ (cf. (K (K (K (K ~ K(K K(K K(K K(K ‘to ask’)<br />

(M= (M= (M= (M= ~ (M= (M= (M= (M= ‘to return’<br />

(C= (C= (C= (C= ~ A(C= A(C= A(C= A(C= ‘to stir’<br />

These patterns were not evident in Section 6.1, because SRA inserted an = before<br />

[+low] vowels (cf. =M= =M= ‘road’, =(=( =(=( =(=( =(=( ‘bro<strong>the</strong>r’, =M= =M= =M= =M= ‘work’, =C= =C= =C= =C= ‘animal’)<br />

So far, we have seen examples <strong>of</strong> LVS applying in augmented monomorphemic<br />

words <strong>and</strong> between a prefix <strong>and</strong> a root. LVS may also occur between a root <strong>and</strong> a suffix,<br />

e.g. =@(A =@(A =@(A =@(A → =@ =@A( =@ =@A(<br />

A(A A( A A A ‘this’. But it is not limited to applying across morpheme<br />

boundaries within a word. The process is attested across word boundaries. For example, it<br />

is attested between a clitic pronoun <strong>and</strong> a verb:<br />

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