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Because Cân Gert is designed for clarity, its derivational and inflectional morphology generally features little phonological alternation, with a few minor exceptions. | Because Cân Gert is designed for clarity, its derivational and inflectional morphology generally features little phonological alternation, with a few minor exceptions. | ||
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Internal 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 final vowel of the first morpheme is an ɪ or ʊ and is not occurring as part of a diphthong | # 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 | # All the adjacent vowels would form a licit diphthong | ||