In linguistics, pausa (Latin for 'break', from Greek παῦσις, pâusis 'stopping, ceasing'[1][2]) is the hiatus between prosodic declination units.
In dialects of English with linking or intrusive R (a type of liaison), the r is not realized in pausa even if the following word begins in a vowel.
In Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, other Semitic languages, and Egyptian, pausa affects grammatical inflections.
In Arabic, short vowels, including those carrying case, are dropped before a pausa, and the gender is modified.
The Arabic alphabet has a letter ة (tāʾ marbūṭa تاء مربوطة) for the feminine, which is classically pronounced [h] in pausa but [t] in liaison.