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morphologically like a unit; -ka- verbalizer never occurs
except preceded by -na (usually reduced to the velar nasal
allophone of /n/, which is homorganic to /k/). In this

combination /k/ always voices in Salinas.

aka.n.k.i.wa [akangiwa] ‘it's here' -na ‘in, of’

-ka- verbalizer

In other cases where the sequence /nk/ occurs across mor-
pheme boundaries and the word stress occurs after the
nasal, voicing may or may not occur depending on whether
the nasal is realized as homorganic to the following velar,
or not. (Nonhomorganic realizations occur in more careful

speech. )
Nonhomorganic:
mun.ka.:na [munké:na] ‘he wanted' muna.fia 'to wait’

-ka- incompletive

yapu alira.n.k.i [alirdnki] ‘the field is sprouting’
-ni- approacher

-ka- incompletive
Homorganic:

tani.n.k.i:pan [taningt:pan] '‘running'
-ni- approacher

-ka- incompletive