Answer to Question #208866 in Geography for veronica

Question

Extract A

Here are all the consonant phonemes in Iaai:

Here are all the short vowel phonemes in Iaai:

In this language, vowel length is phonemic and all vowels may occur both short and long.

1. How many consonants does Iaai have? (1 mark)

2. Compared with Proto-Oceanic, how different is the consonant inventory of Iaai? What do we learn about the evolution of Iaai consonants then? (2 marks)

3. To an Iaai speaker, does it make any difference if another speaker says [ɛ] and [ɛ:], [u] and [u:], [ɔ] and [ɔ:] etc.? Why? Justify your answer. (2 marks)

Answer 1

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