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A consequence of the phonotactic restrictions is that only two distinctive stem types could occur in the word roots: å/ä-stems and ə-stems. A characteristic of the latter is that the stem final high (reduced) vowel ''ə'' could alternate with zero before suffixes comprising a whole syllab,e provided the restrictions on consonant distribution were not violated. The phenomenon (the so called consonant stem) is actually one of the very few | A consequence of the phonotactic restrictions is that only two distinctive stem types could occur in the word roots: å/ä-stems and ə-stems. A characteristic of the latter is that the stem final high (reduced) vowel ''ə'' could alternate with zero before suffixes comprising a whole syllab,e provided the restrictions on consonant distribution were not violated. The phenomenon (the so called consonant stem) is actually one of the very few morphophonemic alternations that can be reconstructed in PU. | ||
Another consequence of the restrictions in vowel distributions is that in suffixes containing a low vowel in the lexicon, the vowel segment could be realized either as a back vowe (''*å'') or as a front vowel (''*ä'') depending on the vocalism of the root. | Another consequence of the restrictions in vowel distributions is that in suffixes containing a low vowel in the lexicon, the vowel segment could be realized either as a back vowe (''*å'') or as a front vowel (''*ä'') depending on the vocalism of the root. | ||