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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
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. | ||
====Vowel dissimilation==== | |||
A short vowel will dissimilate from a following long vowel | |||
====Internal excrescence==== | ====Internal excrescence==== | ||
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But: | But: | ||
: ''mâ'' + ''ât'' (good + place) → ''mâ'ât'' [ | : ''mâ'' + ''ât'' (good + place) → ''mâ'ât'' [ˈmaː.ʔaːt] (heaven, exaltation) | ||
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 except due to prothetic sandhi (see below), and nor do apostrophes, so the apostrophe is functionally the orthographic representation of a glottal stop. | 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 except due to prothetic sandhi (see below), and nor do apostrophes, so the apostrophe is functionally the orthographic representation of a glottal stop. | ||