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In at least one instance, a final glottal stop disappears with 

 previous vowel in the reduplicated plural form. 



inn head rao'M 



iim'bar hat (head-basket) mo'nrbar 



In another case an intervocalic glottal stop disappears in the 

 reduplicated plural form. 



ku"ur Cora kuVur 



An intervocalic A in the stem generally disappears in reduplica- 

 tion or combination, and the general tendency is toward a phonetic 

 simplification in the plural and all extended forms. 



vi'hok mezquite vi'piok 



tolio-v cave totov 



gi'ho-r rainbow gi'gioT 



A second type of plural formation is found with dissyllabic stems 

 where the change, which is evidently a form of reduplication, 

 occurs within the stem itself. Thus an intervocalic /• is often 

 changed to p\ 



