Phonology
# and do not actually share the same place of articulation; is or prealveolar and is . Other coronal consonants tend to be prealveolar or post-dental.
#The distribution for the glottal stop is allophonic, appearing only between like vowels, before initial vowels, and after final vowels. It is also largely absent in normal speech
# is intervocalically
# is actually an alveolar/prealveolar and only occurs as a syllable onset.
# varies between glottal and realizations and is sometimes difficult to distinguish from
While Pazeh contrasts voiced and voiceless obstruents, this contrast is neutralized in final position for labial and velar plosives, where only and occur respectively . and are also neutralized to the latter. Voiceless plosives are unreleased in final position.
Mid vowels are allophones of close vowels .
* Both lower when adjacent to .
* lowers before . and are in free variation before
* morphemes carry the phonetic vowel even when the reduplicated vowel is not in the phonological context for lowering.
** → .
is somewhat advanced and raised when adjacent to . Prevocally, high vowels are semivocalized. Most coronal consonants block this, although it still occurs after . Semivowels also appear post-vocally.
Phonotactics
The most common morpheme structure is CVCVC where C is any consonant and V is any vowel. Consonant clusters are rare and consist only of a nasal plus a homorganic obstruent or the glide element of a diphthong.
intervocalic voiceless stops are voiced before a morpheme boundary . Stress falls on the ultimate syllable.
Morphology
Pazeh makes ready use of affixes, infixes, suffixes, and circumfixes, as well as reduplication. Pazeh also has "focus-marking" in its verbal morphology. In addition, verbs can be either stative or dynamic.
Bibliography
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Further reading
*Li, R., & Tsuchida, S. . ''Pazih texts and songs''. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics , Academia Sinica. ISBN 9576718880
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