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*Plain stops and affricates are voiced intervocalically, including across word boundaries; /t/ is voiced as [ɾ].
*Plain stops and affricates are voiced intervocalically, including across word boundaries; /t/ is voiced as [ɾ].
*Sibilants are realized as postalveolar before /j/ and front vowels, including across word boundaries.
*Sibilants are realized as postalveolar before /j/ and front vowels, including across word boundaries.
*/w ɹ j/ not adjacent to a vowel are realized as [i ə o].
*/w ɹ j/ not adjacent to a vowel become /i ə o/.
*Some speakers insert [ʔ] between vowels on word boundaries and before utterance-initial vowels.
*Some speakers insert [ʔ] between vowels on word boundaries and before utterance-initial vowels.