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Chapter 21Glides, Vowel Hiatus, and the Diphthong Question

The phonemic-vs-epenthetic status of /w/ and /y/, glide epenthesis resolving vowel hiatus, and the analysis of ay/uy/oy/aw/iw/ew as coda-glide (VC) sequences rather than true diphthongs.

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