a consonant-vowel or a consonant-vowel-consonant sequence. When three consonants (or one geminated consonant and one simple consonant) come together within a word, the cluster is broken up with the introduction of an epenthetic vowel , and when two consonants (or one geminated consonant) would otherwise end a word, the vowel appears after them, or (when this happens because of the presence of a suffix) is introduced before the suffix.For example,

Stress is neither contrastive nor particularly salient