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-===== <small>Opening</small> =====
+===== <small>Dissimilation</small> =====
-Plain plosives spirantize and plain fricatives debuccalize word initially when in an unstressed syllable:
+[WIP]
+/t/ shifts to /t͡ʃ/ word initially when the following syllable repeats the onset, but under the same conditions /p/ and /k/ become /f/ and /x/, respectively:
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 |/p/ → [f]
-|/'''p'''aʃuwu/ → ['''f'''a.ʃuˈɡʷu]
+|/'''p'''apa/ → ['''f'''aˈba]
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-|/t/ → [θ]
+|/t/ → [t͡ʃ]
-|/'''t'''usːa/ → ['''θ'''uˈsːa]
+|/'''t'''u.diɹa/ → ['''t͡ʃ'''u.diˈɹa]
 |-
 | /k/ → [x]
-|/'''k'''aʔuni/ → ['''x'''ɐˈʔɔ.ni]
+|/'''k'''akuni/ → ['''x'''ɐ.gɔˈni]
-|-
-| /s/ → [h]
-| /'''s'''iwi/ → ['''h'''iˈvi]
-|-
-|/ʃ/ → [h]
-|/'''ʃ'''aʔa/ → ['''h'''ɐˈʔa]
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+It's theorized that all three plosives originally became affricates, but [t͡ʃ] is the only one to have resisted further spirantization.
 ==== Centralization ====