| 31. | In some traditions the short vowel tended to shift to in unstressed closed syllables : this is known as the law of attenuation.
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| 32. | The difference in quality is often reinforced by a difference in length ( but the difference is contrastive in final closed syllables ).
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| 33. | For instance, and are found in closed syllables ending in, and only is found in closed monosyllables before,, and.
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| 34. | Speaking entirely for myself, I'm a speaker of GenAm and have very monophthongal values for those vowels in closed syllables.
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| 35. | Only three vocalic phonemes occur in unstressed final syllables : in open syllables only, and and in both open and closed syllables.
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| 36. | The general practice was to write long vowels with a single letter in an open syllable and with two letters in a closed syllable.
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| 37. | Long vowels in closed syllables are doubled, and consonants are doubled following short vowels in open syllables even when this is not etymological.
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| 38. | However, often it is used in a loose sense, as a cover term referring to all shortening of long diphthongs in closed syllables.
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| 39. | The close vowels and and the close portions of the diphthongs are slightly centered to and in closed syllables, i . e . before and.
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| 40. | In writing out a poem's poetic metre, open syllables are symbolized by " . " and closed syllables are symbolized by " ".
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