ABSTRACT
My purpose in this section is to show how the analysis of syncopating a which was developed in Chapter 5 can be extended to account for syncopating i, and a and o. It may be appropriate at the outset, however, to ask how much of the data we should expect to cover in a phonological analysis of alternations like those described in the preceding sections. Some vowel/zero alternations which are historically cases of syncope should undoubtedly be stated as morphologically conditioned allomorphy in the synchronic grammar of Passamaquoddy.
