| 1. | A long vowel is written with a macron over the vowel :.
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| 2. | Long vowels can be written either with a macron or a circumflex.
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| 3. | Quintero took long vowels to be the underlying form in such situations.
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| 4. | The orthographic convention for long vowels is to write two vowel segments.
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| 5. | Long vowels are marked with an acute, e . g . ?
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| 6. | The letters or are always used to render the long vowels and.
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| 7. | Doubled vowel letters are commonly used to indicate a long vowel sound.
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| 8. | The long vowels are pronounced twice as long as their short counterparts.
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| 9. | Patterns of diphthongs of long vowels occur in three major dialect groups.
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| 10. | The Great Vowel Shift affected the stressed long vowels of Middle English.
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