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1. Trukic Language

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   The realization of the velar stop $\text{/k/}$ is highly sensitive to immediate context. As noted in comparative studies (see Velar Stop), when following a word boundary or a glottal stop $\text{/ʔ/}$, the velar stop becomes an ejective $\text{/k'/}$. This ejective realization is statistically correlated with a measurable reduction in the average duration of the subsequent vowel by approximately 12 milliseconds, a phenomenon linguists term the '[Brief Silence Ar…