Navajo phonology is intimately connected to its morphology. For example, only at the beginning of word stems is the entire range of contrastive consonants found — in stem-final position and in prefixes the number of contrasts is drastically reduced. Similarly, vowels contrasts (including their prosodic combinatory possibilities) found outside of the stem are significantly neutralized.
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- Navajo phonology is intimately connected to its morphology. For example, only at the beginning of word stems is the entire range of contrastive consonants found — in stem-final position and in prefixes the number of contrasts is drastically reduced. Similarly, vowels contrasts (including their prosodic combinatory possibilities) found outside of the stem are significantly neutralized. Like most Athabascan languages Navajo is coronal heavy having many phonological contrasts at coronal places of articulation and correspondingly less at other places. Also typical of the family, Navajo has a defective number of labial sounds both in terms of its phonemic inventory and in their occurrence in actual lexical items and displays consonant harmony.
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- Navajo phonology is intimately connected to its morphology. For example, only at the beginning of word stems is the entire range of contrastive consonants found — in stem-final position and in prefixes the number of contrasts is drastically reduced. Similarly, vowels contrasts (including their prosodic combinatory possibilities) found outside of the stem are significantly neutralized.
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