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the outcome of a low-falling tone after a mid tone. However, these changes do not occur in all compounds where they might: for instance ? "bear" + ? "mother" regularly forms ?? "female bear", but ? "jackal" + ? "mother" forms ?? "female jackal" without sandhi. The syntax creates other contrasts: tone sandhi applies across the boundary between object and verb, so is present in SOV clauses like ????? "Mujy looks for Luti", but is absent in OSV

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