Germanic languages have lax vowels generally only in closed syllables and so they are also called " free vowels ", as they often occur the end of a syllable.
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Lax vowels are indicated by italic type, unless the tense vowel is a rotated letter ( back, unrounded vowels ), in which case it is turned right-side up.
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The lax vowel may even be retained in derived words where the original stressed lax vowel has disappeared, " e . g . musical "'musical'can be or.
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The lax vowel may even be retained in derived words where the original stressed lax vowel has disappeared, " e . g . musical "'musical'can be or.
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In New Zealand English, the high front lax vowel ( as in the word " bit " ) has shifted open and back to sound like schwa, and both stressed and unstressed schwas exist.
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The verb " can't " also contrasts with the lax vowel in the name of Immanuel Kant in some speaker's idiolects . talk ) 19 : 58, 19 September 2013 ( UTC)
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The lax allophone of a high vowel may also appear in open syllables by assimilation to a lax vowel in a following syllable, " e . g ., musique "'music'can be either or.
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Like the English checked vowels, the German lax vowels require a following consonant, with the notable exception of ( which is absent in many varieties, as discussed below ) . is sometimes considered the lax counterpart of tense in order to maintain this tense / lax division.
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The environment of " broad " a " " overlaps with that of tensing, in that it occurs before voiceless fricatives in the same syllable and before nasals in certain environments; and both phenomena involve replacement of the short lax vowel with a longer and tenser vowel.
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Unstressed " e " and " i " in open syllables had merged by the early 17th century; their reduced reflex is often transcribed, but by many speakers is still pronounced as a high front lax vowel, distinct from the derived from " a ".
