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The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

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2.6.4.2 Vowel harmony .................................................................................39<br />

2.6.4.3 Pre-clitic aspiration ...........................................................................41<br />

2.6.4.4 Final suffix simplification .................................................................41<br />

2.6.4.4.1 IMPERFECTIVE –aa ..............................................................42<br />

2.6.4.4.2 PERFECT –niit! ......................................................................42<br />

2.6.4.4.3 Suffixes ending in latent vowels ..............................................43<br />

2.6.4.4.3.1 Person markers –ni" <strong>and</strong> –w! ...........................................43<br />

2.6.4.4.3.2 Person/aspect suffixes –ti" <strong>and</strong> –li" ....................................44<br />

2.6.4.4.3.3 –ni" suffixes ......................................................................45<br />

2.6.4.4.3.4. Suffixal long vowel shortening ......................................45<br />

2.6.4.4.3.5. Suffixes in final –n .........................................................46<br />

2.3.4.4.6 ITERATIVE –pa!a ............................................................46<br />

2.6.4.5 Post-glottal vowel devoicing .............................................................46<br />

2.6.5 Postlexical constraints at word <strong>and</strong> phrase boundaries ..............................47<br />

2.6.5.1 Vowel epenthesis ..............................................................................47<br />

2.6.5.2 Nasal epenthesis ................................................................................48<br />

2.6.5.3 Glottal feature epenthesis at prosodic boundaries ............................49<br />

2.6.5.3.1 Final vowels .............................................................................50<br />

2.6.5.3.2 Final sonorants .........................................................................50<br />

2.6.5.3.3 Final obstruents ........................................................................51<br />

2.7 Stress ...................................................................................................................52<br />

2.7.1 Lexical stress ..............................................................................................52<br />

2.7.2 Morphological stress ..................................................................................53<br />

2.7.2.1 Suffix-associated stress .....................................................................53<br />

2.7.2.1.1 Progressive aspect stress ..........................................................54<br />

2.7.2.1.2 Perfect aspect stress .................................................................54<br />

2.7.2.1.3 Imperfective aspect stress ........................................................55<br />

2.7.2.1.4 Perfective aspect stress ............................................................55<br />

2.7.2.1.5 Person markers <strong>and</strong> stress ........................................................56<br />

2.7.2.1.6 Enclitic =kú’u" <strong>and</strong> stress ..........................................................57<br />

2.7.2.2 Compound stress ...............................................................................57<br />

2.7.2.3 Sound symbolic adverbial stress .......................................................58<br />

2.7.3 Interrogative stress shift .............................................................................58<br />

2.7.3.1 Questions with verbal stress shift .....................................................59<br />

2.7.3.2 Stress shift on nonverbal constituents ...............................................60<br />

2.8 Sound symbolism ................................................................................................61<br />

2.8.1 Color terms .................................................................................................62<br />

2.8.2 Odor/flavor terms .......................................................................................63<br />

2.8.3 Sound <strong>and</strong> manner adverbials ....................................................................64<br />

2.8.4 Sound symbolism in verbs .........................................................................66<br />

2.9 Spanish loanword <strong>phonology</strong> ..............................................................................66<br />

2.9.1 Phonemic substitutions ..............................................................................67<br />

2.9.1.1 Voiced stops ......................................................................................67<br />

2.9.1.2 Fricatives ...........................................................................................68<br />

2.9.1.3 Liquids ..............................................................................................68<br />

2.9.1.4 Obstruent-liquid clusters ...................................................................69<br />

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