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The obstruents have two allophonic realizations : they are voiceless in word-initial and word-final positions, and voiced otherwise. | The obstruents have two allophonic realizations : they are voiceless in word-initial and word-final positions, and voiced otherwise. | ||
There is no phonological lengthening of vowels or gemination of consonants. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
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===Phonetics=== | |||
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Plosives are not aspirated ; generally, the VOT occurs early in Lodeen, and voiced plosives are voiced all throughout due to their position in the word. | |||
The plosives [p] and [b] are bilabial. The plosives [t̪] and [d̪] are "dental" or more exactly pronounced with the blade of the tongue about the alveola and the apex slightly touching the teeth. They get slightly affricated before /i/ or /j/ but not in a very noticeable way, at least in the standard variety. The plosives [k] and [g] are velar, and slightly palatalized before /i/ and /j/ but not to the extent that they would become [c]/[ɟ]. The fricatives [f] and [v] are labio-dental, realized with the upper teeth touching the lower lip, slightly from behind. The fricatives [s] and [z] are realized with a similar configuration as /t/ and /d/, probably slightly more retracted. They are not noticeably palatalized before /i/, at least in the standard variety. The approximant [l] is realized in a rather apical and alveolar manner ; it is slightly velarized after/before back, rounded vowels. The approximant [j] is palatal, the approximant [w] is labio-velar. | |||
Concerning vowels, high vowels [i] and [u] tend to weaken a bit in atonic position. The open vowel [ä] is rather centralized. The mid vowels present an allophony between open and closed : they're realized [e] and [o] in an open syllable (no coda), but [ɛ] and [ɔ] in a closed syllable (ending with a consonant coda). This is more especially true when it's a word-final syllable. That allophony is never showed in current transcriptions. | |||
There is an assimilation of the nasal [n̪] (realized more or less like /t/ and /d/) in [ŋ] before /k/, but it keeps its place of articulation before other consonants. The nasal [m] is bilabial. | |||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||