unstressed |- | | style="text-align: left;" | high tone or primary stress & mid tone & open |- ! rowspan="2" | | | style="text-align: left;" | primary stress |- | | style="text-align: left;" | closed or unstressed |- ! rowspan="3" | | | style="text-align: left;" | stressed & mid tone |- | | style="text-align: left;" | low tone or unstressed |- | | style="text-align: left;" | high tone or primary stress & mid tone & open |- ! | | style="text-align: left;" | all environments |} The monophthongs can be followed by high front and high back offglides, but these are analyzed as glide consonants in a coda position. Trager notes that in these sequences the glides are not as prominent as the vowel nuclei but that the difference is not very marked, and, in fact, describes these as diphthongs on par with Trager's "vowel clusters". The following vowel + glide sequences are reported in : {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" ! Vowel nucleus !! offglide !! offglide | rowspan="7" | ! Vowel nucleus !! offglide !! offglide |- ! | – || ! | || – |- ! | – || ! | || – |- ! | – || – ! | || |- ! | || – ! style="background-color: lightGrey;" | | style="background-color: lightGrey;" | | style="background-color: lightGrey;" | |- ! | || ! | || |- ! | || ! | || – |} Reduplicative patterning Noun stems that end in a vowel have a suffixation-reduplication process in absolute forms that attaches a glottal stop and a reduplicant consisting of a reduplicated stem-final vowel to the noun stem (which is, then, followed by an inflectional suffix): STEM- + -- + -SUFFIX (where V = a reduplicated vowel) If the stem-final vowel is an oral vowel, the reduplicated vowel is exactly the same as the stem vowel: {| | || ('bracelet') || (< ) |- | || ('bird') || (< ) |- | || ('cake') || (< ) |- | || ('fish') || (< ) |- | || ('skirts') || (< ) |- | || ('bat') || (< ) |} However, if the stem-final vowel is nasal, the nasality is not copied in the reduplicant — that is, the nasal vowel will be reduplicated as that vowel's oral counterpart: {| | || ('earth" (duoplural) || (< ) |- | || ('question') || (< ) |- | || ('youth')