"pausa" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1954, Johannes Hendrik Kramers, Analecta orientalia: posthumous writings and selected minor works",
          "text": "The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context.",
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          "text": "Besides, the pausa endposition may have served to highlight the informational value of the substituendum.",
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          "text": "In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih. And since t' is complete as two letters, the tongue utters both of them in the pausa.",
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          "text": "For instance, the perfect in -miš (> -mi before pausa) always has the high unrounded vowel, the abstract noun suffix appears in a single variant +luġ, the infinitive is -maġ and the instrumental +ine.",
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