| 11. | The parentheses around the vowels indicate that the vowel can be dropped in when following an open vowel.
|
| 12. | The second phase affected the open vowel and the open-mid vowels : were raised, in most cases changing to.
|
| 13. | The lax open vowel has become fronted : " a " >, and in word-final position further raised to.
|
| 14. | The table " Dialects and open vowels " shows this variation with lexical sets in which these sounds occur.
|
| 15. | If it was true for all open vowels in Old French, it would explain the palatalization of velar plosives before.
|
| 16. | This letter is used to represent the open front unrounded vowel and is often used to transcribe other open vowels.
|
| 17. | In Uralic language, the open vowel is raised to near-open after a palatalized consonant, as in the name of the language,.
|
| 18. | The main difference among the dialects of Brazilian Portuguese is the frequent presence or not of open vowels in unstressed syllables.
|
| 19. | The defining characteristic of a near-open vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to an open vowel, but slightly more constricted.
|
| 20. | The defining characteristic of a near-open vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to an open vowel, but slightly more constricted.
|
