| 21. | It was stressed open syllables; they were short when they occurred in " checked " or closed syllables.
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| 22. | Long and short vowels are only contrastive in open syllables; in closed syllables, all vowels are always short.
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| 23. | In the remaining closed syllables dialectal / a / generally corresponds to classical, while classical and have merged into.
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| 24. | All tone contours are possible for open syllables ( syllables without consonant codas ) and closed syllables with nasal codas.
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| 25. | Some Quebecers diphthongize the vowel as in final closed syllables ( " p�te "'dough').
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| 26. | In French and Italian, the distinction between low-mid and high-mid vowels occurred only in closed syllables.
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| 27. | The result is that the first is pronounced as an open syllable but retains the vowel typical of a closed syllable.
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| 28. | As in Dutch, long vowels were often written doubled in closed syllables, and they were often long in open syllables.
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| 29. | The clusters have vowel components of equal length in stressed closed syllables ( either primary or medial stress ) with mid tone.
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| 30. | This was evident in Old Church Slavonic, which had no closed syllables at all : every syllable ended in a vowel.
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