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would usually be exempt from rounding harmony. As a result of counter-bleeding opacity, the apparent motivation for the vowel harmony has disappeared here. Moreover, as a result of counter-feeding opacity, it cannot be told from the surface structure of the suffix vowel why it fails to harmonize in
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order of two or more phonological rules, which is called "counter-feeding opacity" or "counter-bleeding opacity". An example of both can be seen in the
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Kiparsky, Paul (1973). "Abstractness, opacity and global rules (Part 2 of 'Phonological representations')". In Fujimura, Osamu (ed.).
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between the suffix vowel and a preceding high vowel as these vowels agree in roundedness, while a vowel with the
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Baković, Eric (2011). "Opacity and ordering". In Goldsmith, John; Riggle, Jason; Yu, Alan C.L. (eds.).
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and other dialects. Before voiceless consonants such as , the diphthong /
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that exists in a given language appears to be contradicted by the
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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