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====Boundary excrescence==== | ====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: | Boundary excrescence refers to a process in Cân Gert where a glottal stop is inserted at a word-internal morpheme boundary with two vowels (or semivowels) where one of the following applies: | ||
# The first | # The final vowel of the first morpheme is an ɪ or ʊ and is not occurring as part of a diphthong | ||
# | # All the adjacent vowels would form a licit diphthong | ||
# The vowels are identical | # The immediately adjacent vowels (or semivowels) are identical | ||
# | # The first vowel 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 | So: | ||
: ''dro'' + ''ât'' (bad + place) → ''droât'' [dro.aːt] (hell, damnation) | |||
: ''tei'' + ''âl'' (house + beauty) → ''teiâl'' [teɪ.(j)aːl] (museum, gallery, exhibition) | |||
But: | |||
: ''tî'' + ''ûn'' (tea + green) → ''tî'ûn'' (green tea) | |||
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==== | ====Nasal assimilation==== | ||