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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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2.6.4.4.3.5. Suffixes in final -n. When the (final syllable <strong>of</strong> the) suffixes –nan INDEFINITE<br />

OBJECT/HABITUALIZER, -kutun DESIDERATIVE, <strong>and</strong> –kan REFLEXIVE are unstressed<br />

word-finally, they lose their final nasals by regular phonological rule (see §2.6.1.1.3).<br />

149)/ta-kaas"tlawa-nan-li&/ 150) /kin-laaqtsin-kan-li&/<br />

3SUB.pl-adorn-HAB-PFTV 1OBJ-see-REFL-PFTV<br />

[takaas"tlawána] [kilaaqtsínka&]<br />

‘they adorned it’ ‘I looked at myself’<br />

151)/ta-tlawa-kutun-li&/<br />

3SUB.pl-do-DES-PFTV<br />

[tatlawakútu]<br />

‘they wanted to do it’<br />

2.3.4.4.6 ITERATIVE –pa!a. When stress is non-final, -pa!a is truncated to –pa! or -pa wordfinally.<br />

152)/#kaak-nan-maa-para/ 153) /pin-pa$a-ti&/<br />

heat-HAB-PROG-ITER go2-ITER-2SUB.sg<br />

[#kaaknamaapá] [pimpá$'a&]<br />

‘it’s hot again’ ‘you went again’<br />

2.6.4.5 Post-glottal vowel devoicing. This rule bans the appearance <strong>of</strong> a full vowel after a<br />

glottalized consonant. Many cases <strong>of</strong> vowels following a consonant with constricted glottis<br />

features are underlyingly latent vowels lacking a root node (see §2.2.3). However, underlyingly<br />

full vowels also devoice prepausally when morphological glottalization surfaces at a prosodic<br />

boundary (see postlexical glottal epenthesis in §2.6.5.3). <strong>The</strong> construction that causes<br />

morphological glottalization <strong>of</strong> the final consonant <strong>of</strong> the word is 2 nd person singular subject<br />

marking (see §4.8.1.2). Note that 2 nd person glottalization may affect any consonant phoneme,<br />

including sonorants <strong>and</strong> fricatives (see Beck 2006 for a treatment <strong>of</strong> ejective fricatives in the<br />

Upper Necaxa dialect).<br />

<strong>The</strong> vowels in these contexts behave identically to the underlying latent vowels: phonetically<br />

they are devoiced or optionally deleted, are only perceptible in the noisy release <strong>of</strong> the<br />

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