The gate passed: a branch port joins the oral path at the ridge and a closed 3 cm stub notches 2-3 kHz by 13.4 dB against the same render with the port shut
(the shut port is the render without the stub). The ladder cannot hold a second oral channel, so the midline is narrowed to 0.06 cm instead of closed.
The scaffold declares the stub only for a word with a lateral; /apa aba ana ata/ keep script and Faust source byte for byte.
Measured on /ala/: level -5.0 dB re the flanking vowels, F1 263 Hz, burst none. F2 725 Hz against the 1000-1300 design target: NOT met (reported).
A lateral gesture without the side stub is refused, not approximated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>