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(4) The verbal suffix -aid- takes the falling pitch: 



sgelewa'lda^n I shouted to him 



sgelewa'lt' he shouted to him 

 Contrast : 



gwalf wind 



Many more such rules could be given, but these will suffice at present 



to show what is meant by the "fixity" of certain types of accent in 



morphological classes. 



This fixity of accent seems to require a slight qualification. A 



tendency is observable to end up a sentence with the raised pitch, so 



that a syllable normally provided with a falling pitch-accent may 



sometimes, though by no means always, assume a raised accent, if it is 



the last syllable of the sentence. The most probable explanation of 



this phenomenon is that the voice of a Takelma speaker seeks its 



rest in a rise, not, as is the habit in English as spoken in America, in 



a fall.i 



Vocalic JProcesses (§§ 6-11) 



§ 6. VOWEL HIATUS 



There is never in Takelma the slightest tendency to avoid the com- 

 ing together of two vowels by elision of one of the vowels or con- 

 traction of the two. So carefully, indeed, is each vowel kept intact 

 that the hiatus is frequently strengthened by the insertion of a catch. 

 If the words ya^pla man and a'nl^ not, for instance, should come 

 together in that order in the course of the sentence, the two a- vowels 

 would not coalesce into one long vowel, but would be separated by 

 an inorganic (i. e., not morphologically essential) catch yafla 

 ^a'ni^. The same thing happens when two verbal prefixes, the first 

 ending in and the second beginning with a vowel, come together. 

 Thus: 



de- in front 



xo/^- between, in two 



+ 1- with hand 

 generally appear as: 



de%- 



xa°-%- 

 respectively. The deictic element -a\ used to emphasize preceding 



1 Those familiar with Indogemianic phonology will have noticed that my use of the symbols {^), (-), and 

 (^) has been largely determined by the method adopted in linguistic works for the representation of the 

 syllabic pitch-accents of Lithuanian; the main departures being the use of the (-) on short as well as on 

 long vowels and the assignment of a different meaning to the {-). 



§ 6 



