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The sequence /nn/ is allowed. One survey of speakers indicated that /mm/, /ss/, /zz/, /ɕɕ/, and /ʑʑ/ are all considered phonotactically licit, but no actual occurrences of any of these are attested. Identical plosives in sequence will have the former plosive morph to a glottal stop, e.g. */tt/ > [ʔt]. | The sequence /nn/ is allowed. One survey of speakers indicated that /mm/, /ss/, /zz/, /ɕɕ/, and /ʑʑ/ are all considered phonotactically licit, but no actual occurrences of any of these are attested. Identical plosives in sequence will have the former plosive morph to a glottal stop, e.g. */tt/ > [ʔt]. | ||
===Pitch Accent=== | |||
Stress is contrastive in Saxuma. Historically, different parts of speech were produced from the same stem by varying the stress (with verbs having ultimate stress and nouns and adjectives initial), and stress was reinforced by a system of vowel reduction. For example, ''kobá'' [kɔˈba] ˈto drinkˈ vs. ˈˈkóba'' [ˈko.bʌ] ˈbeverageˈ. These kinds of verb-noun pairs still exist in modern Saxuma, such as ''kalán'' 'to cry' vs. ''kálan'' 'tears', but many of them have been made less direct due to sound changes. For example, while 'to drink' is still ''kalán'', 'beverage' is now ''kō''. | |||
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