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===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
Because Cân Gert is designed for clarity, its derivational and inflectional morphology generally features little phonological alternation, with a few minor exceptions. | |||
====Boundary excrescence==== | |||
Boundary excrescence refers to a process in Cân Gert where a glottal stop is inserted at a word-internal morpheme boundary with two vowels where one of the following applies: | |||
# The first vowel is an ɪ or ʊ | |||
# The vowels can form a diphthong | |||
# The vowels are identical | |||
# Either of the vowels is long | |||
The reason for this process is partly phonaesthetic, but mostly to prevent morphemes from being ambiguated. The process is also marked orthographically with an apostrophe. Glottal stops do not occur anywhere else in the language, and nor do apostrophes, so the apostrophe is functionally the orthographic representation of a glottal stop | |||
====Nasal assimilation==== | |||
In speech codaic nasal consonants assimilate to the place of articulation of the onset consonant in the following syllable. This is not marked orthographically. For instance: | |||
: ⟨sencrin⟩ (spelt) → [sɛŋ.kɾɪn] | |||
This process normally only occurs at word-internal morpheme boundaries, but may also occur across word boundaries in rapid speech. For instance: | |||
: ⟨aum gert⟩ (short time) → [aʊŋ gɛɹt] | |||
===Stress and prosody=== | ===Stress and prosody=== | ||