in the eye. Comma juncture/,/ It has two phonetic features: a fully realised pause accompanied or preceded by glottal stricture. Period Juncture/./ It is the juncture with the greatest magnitude and it has four phonetic features: A fully realised pause An associated glottal structure A preceding phrasal accent of unpredictable location A terminal pitch contour that drops sharply in pitch level and voicing Period juncture delimits phonemic sentences. Ex. baꞏ-s-boꞏsin+ net, nis+λiya. They threw rocks at me because I was eating. Ex. baꞏs-boꞏsin+ mat, mis+ λiya. They threw rocks at you because you were eating. Phrasal Accent It consists of very high pitch and particularly heavy stress. Ex. Sukuyum+ límcada.=my dog is sick. EX. Súkuyum+ límcada.=my dog is sick. Phonological processes A vast number of phonological processes occur in the Wintu language. The glottalized velars are pronounced with a slight friction of the tongue when they are in contact with certain vowels in particular contexts. For example, /k'/ becomes prevelar before /i/ and /e/ but it is velar before /ʔa/ and it is backed before /u/ and /o/. In a similar way, the glottalized velar /q'/ is pronounced with more friction at the point of articulation as /q'ˣ/. It is in a frontal position before /i/ and /e/ and becomes backed with all the other vowels. Among the stop consonants only /p/, /t/, and /k/ occur finally as well as initially. The labiodental /f/ is an anomalous phoneme and it occurs only in two borrowed forms /foriĴulay/, Fourth of July or in /frihoꞏ lis/ beans. Older speakers pronounce /s/ as /ṣ/, a retroflexed post-alveolar slit before or after /a/, /o/ and /u/ while younger speakers use /s/ everywhere. /h/ becomes a glottal spirant before /u/, /o/ and /a/, as in /haꞏsma/, to keep on yawning. /r/ is a voiced trill but when it occurs between vowels it becomes a voiced flap, as for example /yor/ tear (imperative form) and /yura/ to tear (infinitive form). /l/ a lateral apical-alveolar, is sometime confused with /r/ as in the word /lileter/ a corn meal. Morphology Wintu possesses a sophisticated morphology with some polysynthetic characteristics. The combination of its morphemes into words involves several processes such as suffixation, prefixation, compounding, reduplication and consonant and vocalic ablaut. Nevertheless, the most common process is suffixation, which occurs primarily in verbs. Vowel ablaut The Vowel Ablaut is a change in the height (gradation) of the root-syllable vowels