ABSTRACT
Alternations like that seen in -acak-are found in a diverse set of environments in Passamaquoddy and appear to reflect the application of five different rules. I will use the term "syncope" to refer to any of the rules of the language which produce vowel/zero alternations and are conditioned by stressability, with the exception of Vowel Elision, a rule deleting the second of two adjacent vowels if it is unstressable, which will receive separate treatment in Chapter 8.
