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====Vowel phonation==== | ====Vowel phonation==== | ||
Antarctican also has a pitch register system (like Burmese and Vietnamese). Modal, tense or breathy voice can occur on either short or long vowels. Vowels with tense voice (marked with a glottal stop after the syllable e.g. /aʔ/) are pronounced with a high or rising pitch, and vowels with breathy voice (marked with a voiced /h/ after the syllable e.g. /aɦ/) are pronounced with a low or falling pitch. This distinction is phonemic e.g. | |||
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<h5>Prediction of Floating | <h5>Prediction of Floating Phonation</h5> | ||
As a rule, whether or not a noun has floating | As a rule, whether or not a noun has floating phonation cannot be | ||
predicted. The only time when it is possible to do so is for absolutive nouns, | predicted. The only time when it is possible to do so is for absolutive nouns, | ||
if, in the ergative form, the first vowel loses its | if, in the ergative form, the first vowel loses its | ||