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//  Catalan  - based on Spanish and Base2
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phoneme a
  vowel starttype (a) endtype (a)
  length 180
  formants vowel/a_6
  reduceto a#  2
endphoneme

phoneme a#
  vowel starttype (@) endtype (@)
  length 170
  formants vowel/a#_3
  unstressed
endphoneme

phoneme e
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 170
  formants vowel/e
  reduceto @  2
endphoneme

phoneme E
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 180
  formants vowel/e_mid
  reduceto @  2
endphoneme

phoneme E2    // don't reduce
  vowel starttype (e) endtype (e)
  length 180
  formants vowel/e_mid
endphoneme

phoneme O
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (o)
  length 170
  formants vowel/oo
  reduceto U  2
endphoneme

phoneme o
  vowel starttype (o) endtype (o)
  length 170
  formants vowel/o
  reduceto U  2
endphoneme

phoneme U
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 160
  formants vowel/uu_2
  unstressed
endphoneme

phoneme u
  vowel starttype (u) endtype (u)
  length 160
  formants vowel/u_bck
  reduceto U 2
endphoneme



phoneme l
  liquid
  length 100
  lengthmod 7
  beforenotvowel l/2       // use 'dark' [l] after a vowel
  formants l/l
  after _ l/_l  t l/tl
endphoneme