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Stress interacts with phonotactics by allowing heavier or more marked consonants in stressed syllables. For example, velarized and retroflex consonants are favored in stressed roots, while palatals and glides dominate in unstressed affixes. Final syllables are stressed when closed by a consonant or contain a lower vowel like /ɒ/ or /ɔ/, while otherwise, penultimate stress is the norm. Vowel reduction does not occur dramatically, but centralization of high vowels to /ə/ is attested in fast speech, particularly in grammatical endings. Words cannot end in consonants, and also, there aren’t geminated consonants.

=== Prosody ===

==== Rhythm, Intonation and Stress ====

One of the characteristic prosodies of Vethari is that it is syllable-timed. In English, an stress-timed language, the gap between stressed syllables is fairly consistent, whereas in Vethari all syllables are assigned equal temporal value. This consistency gives spoken Vethari a metronomic, steadycadence, reminiscent of some East Asian languages. The rhythmic evenness influences not just pronunciation but also specifies syntactic forms to the point that sentences have to fit the inherent temporal forms of the language. There is no specific rhythm like 'trochaic' or 'iambic' for example.

Intonation is crucial on questions, following a rising intonation at the end of the word, whereas irony, falling is used instead. In some places, verbs are pronounced with a peaking intonation at the end.

Stress unpredictable and it changes by the number of syllables, however, usually the penultimate syllable is the stressed one. It has lots of exceptions and rules that people only learn with experience. For example, sometimes it can be on the low vowel syllable and sometimes on a high vowel syllable. Because of that, it is unpredictable to know the weight-sensitiveness.

== Vocabulary ==

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 Stress interacts with phonotactics by allowing heavier or more marked consonants in stressed syllables. For example, velarized and retroflex consonants are favored in stressed roots, while palatals and glides dominate in unstressed affixes. Final syllables are stressed when closed by a consonant or contain a lower vowel like /ɒ/ or /ɔ/, while otherwise, penultimate stress is the norm. Vowel reduction does not occur dramatically, but centralization of high vowels to /ə/ is attested in fast speech, particularly in grammatical endings. Words cannot end in consonants, and also, there aren’t geminated consonants.
+=== Prosody ===
+==== Rhythm, Intonation and Stress ====
+One of the characteristic prosodies of Vethari is that it is syllable-timed. In English, an stress-timed language, the gap between stressed syllables is fairly consistent, whereas in Vethari all syllables are assigned equal temporal value. This consistency gives spoken Vethari a metronomic, steadycadence, reminiscent of some East Asian languages. The rhythmic evenness influences not just pronunciation but also specifies syntactic forms to the point that sentences have to fit the inherent temporal forms of the language. There is no specific rhythm like 'trochaic' or 'iambic' for example.
+Intonation is crucial on questions, following a rising intonation at the end of the word, whereas irony, falling is used instead. In some places, verbs are pronounced with a peaking intonation at the end.
+Stress unpredictable and it changes by the number of syllables, however, usually the penultimate syllable is the stressed one. It has lots of exceptions and rules that people only learn with experience. For example, sometimes it can be on the low vowel syllable and sometimes on a high vowel syllable. Because of that, it is unpredictable to know the weight-sensitiveness.
 == Vocabulary ==