In the low vowel area, there was also a pair of short and long diphthongs, and, written ( the long one also in modern editions ).
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In the context of the phonology of any particular language, a " low vowel " can be any vowel that is more open than a mid vowel.
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Curiously, the sibilant consonant has a tendency to debuccalize to in word medial position before the low vowel, and more commonly before the high vowel in all positions.
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This interpretation results in a vowel system with 7 different vowel qualities and a length distinction in the high and low vowels only; this system is depicted in table 3.
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The vowels and are often affected somewhat in emphatic neighborhoods as well, with generally more back or centralized allophones, but the differences are less great than for the low vowels.
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The mid back vowel transcribed in " Oscar " and " Foxtrot " is actually a low vowel in both Received British and General American, and has been interpreted as such above.
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Also,, or appear in some unstressed syllables, in EP . And there is some dialectal variation in the unstressed sounds : the northern and eastern accents of BP have low vowels in unstressed syllables,, instead of the high vowels.
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In Lokoya, it appears that Class 2 verbs have a stem with an initial mid-front vowel / e-/ or / [ -/, and Class 1 verb stems have an initial low vowel / a-/.
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When final consonants are lost, a glottal stop tends to leave a preceding vowel with a high or rising tone ( although glottalized vowels tend to be low tone so if the glottal stop causes vowel glottalization, that will tend to leave behind a low vowel ).
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Consider Fred Flintstone can mock curse by grumbling with / r / s and low vowels in a way that sounds like a dog growling, but you never hear mock cursing with tweets and lisping sounds . talk ) 18 : 06, 4 March 2014 ( UTC)
