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PDFs for both languages and comments have been emailed.

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@Alessioryan do you know how to resolve merge conflicts? If you want help, email me and we can schedule a screen-sharing session to work through it.

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Alessioryan commented Mar 23, 2023 via email

@Alessioryan Alessioryan force-pushed the tayap_and_chiquitano branch from daa41c1 to 779ebe7 Compare March 28, 2023 22:28
Author = {Kulick, Don and Terrill, Angela},
Year = {2021}}

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@Alessioryan -- please update to same name as the PDF (minus the ".pdf")

@book{kulick2021tayap,
Place = {S.l.},
Title = {Grammar and dictionary of tayap: The life and death of a papuan language},
Publisher = {DE GRUYTER MOUTON},
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@Alessioryan -- please fix.

õː "Complex nuclei consisting of long vowels always occur in stressed positon" õː
ũː "Complex nuclei consisting of long vowels always occur in stressed positon" ũː
ɨ̃ː "Complex nuclei consisting of long vowels always occur in stressed positon" ɨ̃ː
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@Alessioryan -- this is A LOT of diphthongs -- I didn't see any phonemic (minimal pair) information contrasting them, just a table of potential v-to-v combinations. Can you confirm?

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The PDF states "Vowel sequences can either function as a complex nucleus, or a sequence of syllables with the patterns CV.V or V.V. The conditioning factor is stress."
A near minimal pair is /na.'i.bi/ 'your dress' and /na.nai.'ña/ 'all'.
The way diphthongization is phrased makes it seem like stress on the second vowel and diphthongization are in complimentary distribution, where a VV sequence is V.V iff stress falls on the second vowel and VV otherwise. Unfortunately the analysis does not state whether stress is contrastive, but since they mention that the "conditioning factor is stress" I think you're right, they're probably non-contrastive. Thoughts before I update the PR?

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@bambooforest I wanted to check in on this before I update it, let me know what you think, thanks!

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My thoughts remain the same -- maybe you can have a quick look @drammock ?

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The document is not 100% clear, but my best interpretation would be that "vowel combinations in complex nuclei" could reasonably be interpreted to mean "diphthongs" (and there are contrasts demonstrating where stress on the second vowel leads to non-diphthongs, which I think supports that interpretation). So I'd be inclined to follow the table on page 74 of the document (page 22 of the PDF scan) and list the diphthongs included there (except things like ii which should be interpreted as long vowels).

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Fine with me. Thx!

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