English: One (simplistic) version of the derivation of the Arabic word muslim from the abstract w:triconsonantal root s-l-m within the theory of w:nonconcatenative morphology (a development of w:autosegmental phonology). The root consonants are associating with the participle morpheme muCCiC, as shown by the grey dotted lines. Here "C" stands for a consonant slot and "V" for a vowel slot, and the "linearized" pronunciation of the word, /muslim/, is obtained by examining the phonological features linked with each position in the consonant-vowel "skeleton" from beginning to end. These phonological feature bundles are loosely symbolized by letters ("s","l","m","m","u","i") in the diagram. Note that a full analysis of the morphology of the Arabic language would be rather more complex, and what is shown here as the "Verb Stem IV Active Participle morpheme" muCCiC would in fact probably be a derived composite multi-morphemic object, while the C and V slots would be artefacts of syllable structure.