Avalonian: Difference between revisions
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2) Stops, nasals and /l/ are the permitted syllable coda consonants. | 2) Stops, nasals and /l/ are the permitted syllable coda consonants. | ||
3) | 3) Stops may not occur in the onset of a non-morpheme-initial closed syllable. | ||
4) | 4) Stops may not occur in the onset of a non-morpheme-initial syllable which contains a long vowel. | ||
5) Permitted consonant clusters as per the table below: | 5) Consonant clusters may not have more than two segments. | ||
6) Consonant clusters only occur at syllable boundaries within the word. | |||
7) Permitted consonant clusters as per the table below: | |||
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c) √ in a cell means the indicated consonant cluster is permitted. | c) √ in a cell means the indicated consonant cluster is permitted. | ||
8) /i, eɪ/ may not follow /j/. | |||
9) /u, oʊ/ may not follow /w/. | |||
10) /eɪ, aɪ/ may not precede /j/. | |||
11) /oʊ, aʊ/ may not precede /w/. | |||
12) Long vowels may not occur in closed syllables. | |||
13) Vowel clusters do not occur. | |||
14) Canonical morpheme syllable templates: | |||
a) Roots: -(C)(C)V(C)- or -(C)V(C)CV(C)- | a) Roots: -(C)(C)V(C)- or -(C)V(C)CV(C)- | ||
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d) Particles: (C)V(C) or (C)V(C)CV(C) | d) Particles: (C)V(C) or (C)V(C)CV(C) | ||
15) Monosyllabic roots are rare and mainly comprise pronouns and certain verbs such as the copula 'kwe' or the negative verb 'wa'. | |||
16) Monosyllabic suffixes may have a word-final allomorph consisting of a single coda consonant which is employed after a short vowel. | |||
17) Roots originating through foreign borrowings may exceed two syllables. | |||
===Morphophonemics=== | ===Morphophonemics=== | ||