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Vowel harmony in noun-and-particle words in the Tibetan of Baltistan1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

R. K. Sprigg
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In an earlier study, ‘Assimilation, and the definite nominal particle in Balti Tibetan’ (Sprigg, 1972), I dealt with vowel harmony in words in which the noun is colligated with the definite nominal particle, a particle that has the constant phonetic form po when in junction with the final syllable of a noun ending in a consonant (-Cpo), e.g. smenpo ‘the medicine’ sman, but variable phonetic features where the final syllable of the noun ends in a vowel: a share in the features of the resulting word-final long vowel, either -o: or -u: according to vowel harmony.

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , October 1980 , pp. 511 - 519
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1980

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