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How native speakers pronounce “lengthening”

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Since these tenses originally came from the copula verb that began with a voiceless stop which led to vowel loss between the suffixed copula and the preceding voiceless stop and then loss of the first voiceless stop and lengthening of the vowel in accordance with our sound changes.

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

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Since these tenses originally came from the copula verb that began with a voiceless stop which led to vowel loss between the suffixed copula and the preceding voiceless stop and then loss of the first voiceless stop and lengthening of the vowel in accordance with our sound changes.

How to Make a Language - Part 7: Grammatical Evolution

crunching in crunching in and lengthening back out and lengthening back out

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