Glottal spreading: A phonological mechanism where the vocal cords are held apart during the closure of a consonant, affecting voicing. Prenasalization: A phonetic feature where a stop consonant is ...

By convention, but the syllable boundary is placed inside the word boundary: # pat # --> #$ pat $#. V(C)DlV --> V(C)D $ lT. 'D' = an alveolar stop, (C) = any immediately preceding consonant, 'l' = /l/ ...