^^No'^^^^gf^'P- LANGUAGE OF SANTA ANA PUEBLO — DAVIS 67 



1. Two contiguous identical vowels reduce to a single vowel of 

 the same quality. This reduction takes place, for instance, when a 

 pronominal prefix of the shape CV- precedes a stem having an initial 

 vowel of the same quality as that of the prefix: 



saku (sa — h -aku) 7 bit you 



Compare: 



s£uni (sa- + -uni) / know you 



Apparent shifts in accent in the above and other examples arise from 

 orthographic conventions. Accent is indicated only on the first 

 vowel of a cluster, although it is the entire cluster that is accented. 

 This, together with the fact that accent is not indicated on prefixes 

 of the shape CV- (the prefix vowel assumes the accent of the following 

 thematic adjunct), results in a shift of the written accent to the prefix 

 vowel. Vowel reduction of the above type also occurs when the 

 reflexive prefix -a- or the passive prefix -a'^a- precedes a verb stem 

 beginning with -a-: 



saku (s — h -a — \- -aku) you bit yoursel 

 sd-'^gunE (s- -\- -d'i'a- -|- -&,gunE) you were bitten 



Compare: 



saukACA (s — I — a — | — ukAfiA) you saw yourself 



sd'i'audi'tA (§- + -a'^a- -f- -udi'i'tA) it was given to you 



2. No vowels or vowel clusters of more than two moras' length 

 occur. A reduction from three to two moras of length takes place 

 when a short and long vowel are juxtaposed: 



ci-zii^wA (ci- -1- -f-ziiwA) I paid him 

 cdizdwA (cu — I — 1-zuwa) you paid me 



3. The vowel -u- followed immediately by -a- reduces to the single 

 vowel -a-. This occurs when the pronominal prefix ends with -u- and 

 the verb stem begins with -a-: 



caku (cu- + -kkv) you bit me 

 kaku (ku- -}- -aku) bite me 

 skaku (sku- + -^ku) he bit me 



Compare: 



ciiizuwA (cu- -(- -f-zuwA) you paid me 



kuizuwA (ku- + -1-zuwa) pay me 

 skuizuwA (sku- -|- -i-zuwa) he paid me 



4. The vowel -i- immediately followed by -a- reduces to the single 

 vowel -e-. This takes place when a pronominal prefix ending with 

 -i- precedes a verb stem beginning with -a-: 



seku (si- + -aku) I bit him 



teku (ti — \- -^ku) maybe I bit him 



p^ku (pi- + -kkv) let him bite him 



