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1. Uvular Stop

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   Uvular Stops in Vowel Systems
   The presence of uvular consonants exerts a significant, though often passive, influence on vowel quality. In languages with highly constrained vowel spaces, such as the five-vowel systems of many Romance languages, the uvular stop often triggers a slight shift of high front vowels (like $/i/$ and $/e/$) towards centralization or retraction. This is generally attributed to the increased effort required to…