following heavy syllable pausa newly unstressed light syllable reducing schwa tonic lengthening lowering open syllables loss final short vowels nouns examples class wikitable nowrap possible derivation nominal verbal forms 'killing killer masc sg ' 'he killed' 'she killed' 'they killed' 'they killed' pausa 'you masc sg kill' 'you fem sg kill' proto central semitic pre hebrew canaanite shift
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