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David Sankoff's ''On the Rate of Replacement of Word-Meaning Relationships''
David Sankoff's ''On the Rate of Replacement of Word-Meaning Relationships''
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Svele is "slavo-germanic-sounding". Its left-most syllable is stressed and lengthened while unstressed vowels are reduced.
ktonzt
illengred
nagdele "sea"
neivele "sword"
leigeverin "heaven"
ungrevir
leiklisch "lizard"
lugelpuz
rich inventory of sibilants
ch /ɕ/
zh /t͡ɕ/
sch /ʃ/
zch /t͡ʃ/
s /s/
z /t͡s/
ss /ɕʃs/
jawess /ˈi̯aːwəɕʃs/
svhalzche /svaːlt͡ʃə/
vheivele /ˈvaːɪ̯fələ/
svhalzepur
*morphomes are by rule ultrafusional
*vowel reduction is present
*consonant clusters
*segments cannot be pronounced in isolation, but fit within a specific grammatical, contextual, and lexical function influencing the whole phrase
*every word is a phrase


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