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Pharyngeal Movement in Colville and Related Phenomena in the Interior Salishan Languages

0. In this article, I present an interesting morphophonemic phenomenon in Colville, an interior Salishan language of eastern Washington. Then I discuss similar phenomena in related languages and draw some diachronic inferences. The phenomenon in Colville is one I call "long-distance conditioning," where some element in the root interacts with an element in the suffix at a distance of several phonemes and often one or more morphemes.