Sangi/Phonological Proccesses at Morpheme Boundaries

Phonological Processes at CC morpheme boundaries
These changes can occur at word boundaries, also, if a final epenthetic vowel is removed or does not occur. The difference however is that a final voiced consonant will become voiceless before an initial voiceless consonant. In the cases where only one consonant is formed the punctuation mark ` is used in place of ’ to represent that 2 final sounds are missing. This process only occurs in certain styles of writing, but more regularly in speech. The only ones which are never used at word boundaries are the ones such as “mp>mm” which are dependent on the second sound over the first (go across, not down on the table).

In consonant combinations of -r+dental- the dental consonant is made retroflex while the -r- disappears. If an “r” occurs before a retroflex consonant it also becomes retroflex while remaining intact. This feature is also expanded to suffixes of this structure and is quite common, almost obligatory for most people. There are also a set of sound changes which occur with retroflex consonants and plain alveolars. When a retroflex precedes and alveolar, the alvelor becomes retroflex and the same pattern of changes occurs as with plain alveolar combinations, e.g. t.+n = t.+n. = n.n.. The same patterns also occur in retroflex-retroflex combinations, e.g. t.+z. = t.s.. In these changes, a retroflex "r" is preserved, as no process of retroflex creation can occur. The processes are more complex, however, when alveolar consonants precede retroflex ones. The retroflex consonants tend to become the "palatal" equivalent or the alveolar one plus the sound "i".

A note on combinations with voiceless nasals. If a voiceless nasal occurs before a voiced consonant then the voiced nasal+voiced consonant cluster becomes devoiced. A voiceless nasal following voiced consonant forms the usual voiced+nasal cluster. A voiceless nasal before a voicless consonant forms the normal cluster, but with voiceless nasals in place of the usual voiced ones and finally, a voicless consonant followed by a voiceless nasal will form the usual cluster unless it would normally form a nasal+nasal cluster, in which case both these nasals are devoiced.

Epenthesis
Epenthesis: When a vowel follows another vowel and does not form an allowable diphthong then a consonant is inserted between them. A "j" precedes front vowels and "w" precedes back vowels". When a consonant follows another and cannot be put together in the above to ways, then a vowel is inserted between them. A “e” is placed between like consonants, and “i” is placed after labials, an “a” is placed after dentals and an “e” is placed after velars.

Examples of Epethesis:

i+a > ira “I hit”