prepausal
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- (linguistics) Before a pause in speech.
- 2014, David Odden, Bantu Phonology[1], page 27:
- In the simple past and hesternal past (57b), there is an added H on the final vowel (which spreads leftward, when prepausal) and causes deletion of preceding Hs.