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<h3><a id="s9" name="s9">9. Rules for inserting pauses</h3>
<p>Summarized in one place, here are the rules for inserting
pauses between Lojban words:</p>
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<dd>Any two words may have a pause between them; it is always
illegal to pause in the middle of a word, because that breaks
up the word into two words.</dd>
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<dd>Every word ending in a consonant must be followed by a
pause. Necessarily, all such words are cmene.</dd>
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<dt>3)</dt>
<dd>Every word beginning with a vowel must be preceded by a
pause. Such words are either cmavo, fu'ivla, or cmene; all
gismu and lujvo begin with consonants.</dd>
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<dt>4)</dt>
<dd>Every cmene must be preceded by a pause, unless the
immediately preceding word is one of the cmavo ``la'',
``lai'', ``la'i'', or ``doi'' (which is why those strings are
forbidden in cmene). However, the situation triggering this
rule rarely occurs.</dd>
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<dt>5)</dt>
<dd>If the last syllable of a word bears the stress, and a
brivla follows, the two must be separated by a pause, to
prevent confusion with the primary stress of the brivla. In
this case, the first word must be either a cmavo or a cmene
with unusual stress (which already ends with a pause, of
course).</dd>
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<dd>A cmavo of the form ``Cy'' must be followed by a pause
unless another ``Cy''-form cmavo follows.</dd>
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<dd>When non-Lojban text is embedded in Lojban, it must be
preceded and followed by pauses. (How to embed non-Lojban
text is explained in <a href="../c19/s1.html">Chapter
19</a>.)</dd>
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