Pre-occlusion is a phonological process, involving the insertion of a very short plosive consonant before a sonorant consonant. In Manx, this applies to stressed monosyllabic words (i.e. words one syllable long), and is also found in Cornish on certain stressed syllables. The inserted consonant is homorganic with the following sonorant, which means it has the same place of articulation. Long vowels are often shortened before preoccluded sounds.

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  • Pre-occlusion is a phonological process, involving the insertion of a very short plosive consonant before a sonorant consonant. In Manx, this applies to stressed monosyllabic words (i.e. words one syllable long), and is also found in Cornish on certain stressed syllables. The inserted consonant is homorganic with the following sonorant, which means it has the same place of articulation. Long vowels are often shortened before preoccluded sounds. Examples in Manx include: /m/ → [m]: trome /t̪roːm/ → [t̪rom] "heavy" /n/ → [n]: kione /kʲoːn/ → [kʲon] "head" /nʲ/ → [nʲ]: ein /eːnʲ/ → [eːnʲ], [enʲ] "birds" /ŋ/ → [ŋ]: lhong /loŋ/ → [loŋ] "ship" /l/ → [l]: shooyll /ʃuːl/ → [ʃuːl] "walking" Examples in Cornish: /bm/ → [m]: hebma [hɛmə] "this" /dn/ → [n]: pedn [pɛn] "head" In Faroese, pre-occlusion also occurs, as in kallar [ˈkadlaɹ] 'you call, he calls', seinna [ˈsaiːdna] 'latter'. A similar feature occurs in Icelandic, where the pre-occluding consonant is voiceless, as in galli [ˈkatlɪ] ('error'); sæll [ˈsaitl̥], seinna [ˈseitna]; Spánn [ˈspautn̥].
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  • Pre-occlusion is a phonological process, involving the insertion of a very short plosive consonant before a sonorant consonant. In Manx, this applies to stressed monosyllabic words (i.e. words one syllable long), and is also found in Cornish on certain stressed syllables. The inserted consonant is homorganic with the following sonorant, which means it has the same place of articulation. Long vowels are often shortened before preoccluded sounds.
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  • Pre-occlusion
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