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the content of the utterance, the juncture will be said to be phonemic.
v) If any form wich is grammatically free but phonologically bound or an abbreviated form use as a clitic occurs along with a free form which otherwise coud have a complete form and is shortened due to the agglutiantion, there occurs an open juncture in contrast to the close one.
1.16.3.1. Phonemisization: New, keeping the above criteria in mind if we look to the section §1.16.1. we will find that some of the junctures identified therein are phonetic and not phonemic, such as those between two consonants or the junctures following // or preceding/s/ and so on. However, a greater care has been taken in § 1.16.2. while listing the types of junctures in respect of the possible representation in orthography. This section gives the complete list of junctures which occur in Mundari and which are to be considered for phonemisization.
The juncture indicated by keeping the phonemes together is the close juncture and is toe zero point for setting up the contrasts. It occurs even when two free forms are combined into one to act as one free form, while in general it occurs within the same syllable or morpheme.
Open juncture, in general, contrasts with the close one in such minimal pairs:

i)
[dopola]
‘to invite each other’,
but [do+pola]
‘to keep ring’.
ii)
[amre]
‘in you’,
but [am+re!]
‘O you!’
iii)
[honor]
‘to walk’,
but [hon_or]
‘to drag a child’
iv)
[joa]
  ‘check’,
but [jo+oa]
‘it will give fruit’

The criteria Nos. (ii) to (iv) have already been exeplified in § 1.16.1. For example, according to the No. 9ii) instead of assuming the final checked [?b] as a separate phoneme, it can well be explained as b=?b- where /-/ is the juncture phoneme. This interpretation reduces the number of phonemes by two, if /d/ and /g/ also are explained in this way and one phoneme of juncture is set up.
According to (iii) the examples of non-assimilation or non-diphthongization ar edue to the occurrence of a phonemic juncture in between. Thus, [mu.i?] ‘ant’ and [cui] ‘calf’ contrast with the same segments /u/ and /i/ occurring together. It may also be noticed here that it confirms the existence of syllabic [i] in the former and non-syllabic [] in the latter.
According to (iv), all the examples of minimal pairs given above are due to the co-occurrence of stress in (i), (iii)and (iv) and pitch in (ii). Actually, the minimal pairs from the point of view of the segmental phonemes are not minimal from the point of view of the supra-segmentals.
According to (v) such pronominal affixes like /i/ /m/, /pe/, /ben/ and /ka/ for/ leka/ ‘like’ etc., occur with an open juncture as an allophone to the juncture, which would have otherwise been indicated by space. Thus existence of juncture as a phoneme can be established in Mundari as well.
1.16.3.2. Distributions:
i) Close juncture occurs for the segmental division, within a morpheme.
ii) Open juncture (+) has the following allophones at morphemic or word boundaries:
a) The open juncture denoted by a hyphen is internal open juncture and is meant to divide the morphemes as in [en-ka], which may be replaced by space in cases like [sen-hora]~[sen hora], if treated separately.
b) The open juncture denoted by space generally forms the
 

 

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