bue, booi, boy, boi, booee, boye: buwai 'clan; prow' A few forms (such as gru: gœrú 'sugar cane') show that contrastive stress existed in bisyllabic words. Multisyllabic forms Stress is either on the initial or second syllable: (1) initial: gugure: gagaři 'bow' myrabada: ngœiřabatha 'father's sister' tukiapalli: tukuyapalai 'same sex sibling ' (2) second: bobata: bœbàtha 'grandparent' murrag: mœřààga 'sweat' Shifted stress also appears to have occurred as in the modern dialects: purteipa: pùrthàipa 'eat' (attainative imperfective present singular / perfective today future) pratipa: pùràthipa 'eat' (active imperfective present singular / perfective today future) Vowels and diphthongs These appear to have been the same as in the modern language. Vowel length in general appeared in the same environments as in KKY, though some amount of vowel lengthening under the KLY model is evident, as in kawp: kaapu 'seed', Kalau Kawau Ya / Kulkalgau Ya kapu, Kalau Lagau Ya kaapu. The exact extent of retention of underlying vowel length and the development of variant forms is difficult to measure, as the spelling systems used by Brierly and MacGillivray did not always mark vowel length. Further, as they obtained words through elicitation (which has a common 'lengthening effect' on vowels when words are 'slowed down'), there are a few cases where they marked vowel length wrongly. Ray marked vowel shortness in stressed syllables. The various sound changes that the vowels and diphthongs undergo in the modern language also occurred in OKY. One change that occurred much more than in the modern dialects was that of ai monophthongisation to e. The resulting e then often raised to i in open unstressed syllables. No change: alai: alai 'husband', amai: amai 'earth oven' Change: buai, bua, bue, booi, boy, boi, booee, boye: buwai, buwe, buwi 'clan, prow' palai, pale: palai, pale 'they ' kowraraiga, kowrarega: kauřařaiga~kauřařega 'islander' kowraraigali, kowraregale, kowrarigali: kauřařaigalai~kauřařegale~kauřařegali~kauřařigali''' 'islanders' wapi, wawpi: waapi 'fish': plural/proprietive wapilai, wapile, wapili In the modern dialects, these forms are: clan, prow: buwai they : KLY,KulY,S-D palai, B,KY pale islander:KLY,KulY,KY-MY kaiwalaig, plural kaiwaligal / kaiwalgal, KKY kawalaig, plural kawalgal fish: waapi, plural wapil, KulY wapilai The change of ai to ei appears to have been very common elsewhere in the dialect: adaipa, adeipa: adhaipa 'go/put out' attainative perfective today future amaipa, ameipa: amayipa 'crawl' imperfective present angaipa, angeipa: angaipa 'carry' perfective today future batainga, bateinga: bathainga 'tomorrow' baidama, beidama: baidhama 'shark' One form shows optional i insertion: gassumu-,