| 21. | Kiowa distinguishes six vowel qualities, with three distinctive levels of height and a front-back contrast.
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| 22. | In unstressed syllables length is not contrastive, and there are only five vowel qualities, to wit.
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| 23. | Vowel qualities are, all oral and nasal; the nasal vowels have slightly different or variable pronunciations :.
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| 24. | Vowels in unstressed syllables are shortened as well, and vowel shortening causes changes in vowel quality : vowel reduction.
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| 25. | However, the reader associated the final glottal stop inalienably with the vowel quality when reading short Thai vowel symbols.
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| 26. | At the phonological level, Chinglish does not differentiate between various vowel qualities because they don't exist in Chinese.
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| 27. | Normally, when a word is formed by adding a suffix to an existing word, the vowel quality is maintained.
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| 28. | The Jinhui dialect spoken in Shanghai's Fengxian District has 20 vowel qualities, the most among all world languages.
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| 29. | Thus, differences vowel quality reflected older length distinctions while new vowel length distinctions were conditioned by accent type and placement.
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| 30. | Vowel quality and prosodic features like vowel length, tone, and stress have not yet been reconstructed for the Tanoan family.
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