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Syllables are at most (C(C₁))V((C₁)C), with C₁ being more sonorous than the adjacent consonant and syllabic consonants functioning as V. | Syllables are at most (C(C₁))V((C₁)C), with C₁ being more sonorous than the adjacent consonant and syllabic consonants functioning as V. | ||
Clusters with syllabic consonants are as onset-heavy as possible unless a stress shift occurs | Clusters with syllabic consonants are as onset-heavy as possible unless a stress shift occurs; an exception is some regions in which two-sonorant clusters syllabify the first sonorant. | ||
In most regions syllabicity is lost next to vowels unless a stress shift occurs. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||