| 1. | A similar effect to high vowel deletion can be observed with sibilants.
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| 2. | This is additionally complicated by the short high vowels becoming lowered to before.
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| 3. | The laxer and shorter after vowels; becomes tenser initially before high vowels.
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| 4. | On occasion, long chains of high vowels can assimilate, each forcing the next.
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| 5. | The high vowel is the most common, while the low vowel is extremely rare.
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| 6. | High vowels only occur as short.
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| 7. | For instance, an unstressed high vowel in the final syllable of a word is rare.
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| 8. | Prevocally, high vowels are semivocalized.
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| 9. | In the case of the palatal approximant, it is reduced to its corresponding high vowel.
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| 10. | The high vowel, when occurring in onset or coda position, is realized as a glide.
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