ICPhS 2023:
Pre-Pausal Glottalization
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Chicontepec Nahuatl
The following examples demonstrate pre-pausal glottalization in the utterance final context. In the first example, the verb is utterance-final while in the second example, the noun is utterance-final. As both words are vowel-final words, the glottalization here is realized as clear canonical glottal stops.
Verb-final example with noun-incorporation.
Noun-final example.
The following examples demonstrate pre-pausal glottalization in the utterance-final context realized to the left of the utterance boundary. Glottalization is realized on the final vowel for a consonant-final words. When the final vowel is voiceless, glottalization moves to the penultimate vowel/syllable.
Utterance-final pre-pausal glottalization realized on vowel on consonant-final word.
Utterance-final pre-pausal glottalization realized on penultimate vowel when final vowel is devoiced.
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