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Linglib.Phonology.Hiatus.Elision

Prominent positions at a juncture of two morphs #

Where two vowels meet at the boundary of two morphs, eliding either removes the hiatus, and which one goes depends on the positions the two vowels occupy. Casali identifies the positions whose segments resist deletion as the beginning of a word, a lexical word or root, the beginning of a morph, and a morph of one segment. A juncture whose two sides are adjacent morphs of known kinds fixes all four: a morph is lexical when it is a root, and a morph begins a word unless it is joined as an affix or clitic to the morph before it.

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A prominent position, whose segments a faithfulness constraint can protect from deletion.

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      A context is a juncture whose stem and suffix are the forms of two adjacent morphs, together with the kinds of the two morphs and of the morph before them, if there is one.

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        c.Protects p k holds when position k of the unrepaired concatenation lies in the prominent position p. The first position and the position of the second vowel each begin a morph, and begin a word unless that morph is joined as an affix or clitic to the morph before it. A position is lexical when its morph is a root, and is a sole segment when its morph has no other.

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          The first vowel begins a word when it is the whole of its morph and that morph begins a word, is lexical when its morph is a root, and begins a morph or makes it up when it is the whole of it.

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          The second vowel always begins a morph, begins a word when its morph is not joined to the first, is lexical when its morph is a root, and makes up its morph when that has no other segment.