Since the Nara period, / h / began to be pronounced as [ w ] in word-medial position; by the beginning of the 11th century, this phenomenon, called the " Ha-line shift ", had become more widespread.
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Many verbs denote actions or states, they are conjugated with agreement suffixes ( e . g . "-s " of the third person singular in English ), and in English they tend to show up in medial positions of the clauses in which they appear.
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Consonants can also cluster in particular arrangements up to CCCCC in the word-medial position; word-initial or word-final clusters are limited to CCC . Oneida generally accents on the penultimate syllable, and shares with Mohawk the " PLI rules that & lengthen an accented open penult ".
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The distribution pattern may be summed up in the following rule of thumb, which is valid in most cases : in an initial position, we use except in certain function words; in a medial position, we use except for certain foreign loan words; and in final position, we use except in certain verbs.
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What is curious about the Hollywood star ( not the rank and file actor ) is that the agents lock up all the stars and then negotiate in " their own interests " and will " blackball " studios, directors, etc . They are putting themselves in a medial position of capital themselves against the studios.
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Yod-dropping in the above environments was formerly considered nonstandard in England, but is today also heard among well-educated RP speakers . ( The / j / after / s / is not normally dropped in RP in medial positions, however compare " pursuit " . ) In General American yod-dropping is found not only in the above environments but also:
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The medial position ( base ) in this molecule ( the isomer [ 1 ( 2, 3 ) 4 ] pentamantane ) is calculated to yield a more favorable carbocation than the apical position ( top ) and simple bromination of pentamane "'1 "'with bromine exclusively gives the medial bromo derivative "'2 "'which on hydrolysis in water / DMF forms the alcohol "'3 " '.
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When the plural suffix-o is added, the stem-final-i remains a vowel in the case of the monosyllabic stems, but is reduced to a glide in the case of the disyllabic stems which have a single intervocalic consonant and to mere palatalization of the preceding consonant in the case of longer stems ( i . e ., disyllabic stems which have more than one consonant in the medial position and stems containing more than two syllables ).
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Additionally, the special placements of meteg with the three hataf vowels ( whose canonical combinal classes are between 11 and 13 ) requires encoding it after the hataf vowel point, separated by a zero-width joiner control ( ZWJ, U + 200D ) for the medial position ( between the two parts of the hataf vowel ), or by a zero-width non-joiner control ( ZWNJ, U + 200C ) for the final position ( to the left of the hataf vowel ); some encoded texts use CGJ instead of ZWNJ for the later case.
