In general, a high vowel ( or ) that appears in a low-pitched syllable between two voiceless consonants is devoiced and often deleted outright.
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A distinctive feature of the AKlT dialect is that the sounds made in the area of the teeth ridge are palatalised when followed by a high vowel.
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For example, high vowels such as [ i ] and [ u ] tend to have higher fundamental frequency than low vowels such as [ a ].
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Sequences ending in a high vowel ( ) are pronounced more quickly than others ( ), more like diphthongs and long vowels than like vowel sequences in hiatus.
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In the context of the phonology of any particular language, a " high vowel " can be any vowel that is more close 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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Word-medially, a syllable containing the high vowels and may also be reduced to its respective moraic equivalent if not already followed by a moraic obstruent or nasal.
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Nasal vowels, vowels that belong to falling diphthongs, and the high vowels and are not affected by this process, nor is the vowel when written as the digraph.
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In Central Standard Swedish, the high vowels,, and can be phonetically a short vowel followed by the corresponding fricative,,, and or,,, and.
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Zamenhof also noted that glides may be inserted between dissimilar vowels, especially after high vowels as in for " mia " and for " plua ".
