Is it possible for a language to permit morphological processes to alter syllable weight by one "unit", but once the syllable weight is altered more than one unit, morphophonology sets in to stop further change?
This would require the language to have more than two syllable weights, which might seem slightly unlikely (although iirc some Finnic languages might qualify?) and there's a chance this violates some universal about how far languages can "count". Could make for interesting morphophonology, though.
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