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1. Formant

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   Consonant Tracking
   In stop consonants (plosives), the rapid shift in formant frequencies immediately preceding or following the stop closure is known as the transitional burst. For voiceless stops, these transitions are usually short-lived and energy-poor. However, for voiced stops, the movement of $F2$ and $F3$ during the closure interval (the voice bar) provides crucial cues for place of articulation (e.g., labial vs.…

2. Labial Harmony

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   Labial harmony is a type of vowel harmony constraint found in certain languages, most famously in the Mongolic languages and Turkic languages language families, where the rounding or unrounding of vowels in a word is conditioned by the presence of a labial consonant or a specific class of vowel in the root morpheme. This phonological agreement ensures a consistent articulatory profile across the word, which is hypothesized to reduce cognitive lo…

3. Trukic Language

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   Consonants
   The consonant inventory of Trukic contains 28 distinct phonemes, including the standard set of labial, coronal, and dorsal obstruents, plus a set of three phonemically distinct lateral clicks, which are obligatorily pre-nasalized when appearing word-medially [2].
   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 …