Technically, it is a type of external sandhi, which is disrupted in pausa.
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In external sandhi, syllable-final is deleted unless followed by, with few exceptions.
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This is a kind of external sandhi in which words join, undergoing phonological processes such as elision.
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External sandhi effects can sometimes become morphologized ( apply only in certain Tamil and, over time, turn into consonant mutations.
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Does external sandhi work in Serbian / Croatian / Bosnian exactly in the same way that word-internal sound assimilations take place?
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Originally these mutations were phonologically governed external sandhi effects : lenition was caused by a consonant between two vowels, and eclipsis by a sequence of nasal stop + obstruent, also at the beginning of a word.
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In Woods Cree, when combining a word ending with a short vowel with a word beginning with a short vowel, the rule of external sandhi requires the final vowel of the first word to be dropped and the initial vowel of the second word to be lengthened:
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