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| 8) If a word-initial vowel is followed by a word-final vowel then a prothetic /ʔ/ is inserted between the two vowels. | | 8) If a word-initial vowel is followed by a word-final vowel then a prothetic /ʔ/ is inserted between the two vowels. |
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| ===Consonant Gradation===
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| 1) Consonant gradation comes into effect once sandhi has been resolved.
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| 2) Consonant gradation is the lenition of stops under particular circumstances.
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| 3) The conditions under which consonant gradation is triggered are:
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| a) When the stop is the onset of a word-final open syllable, when that stop follows a short vowel, nasal or /l/, and when that syllable becomes closed owing to suffixation.
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| b) When the stop is a word-final coda and becomes the onset of a closed syllable owing to suffixation.
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| 4) Once these conditions are met the affected stop lenites to its corresponding continuant.
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| 5) Morpheme-initial stops are not affected by consonant gradation.
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| ==Morphology== | | ==Morphology== |