| 31. | Similarly, Latin short in an open syllable produces Western but Central, whereas Latin long produces in both dialects.
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| 32. | During the Middle English period, like other short vowels, the / a / was lengthened in open syllables.
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| 33. | All tone contours are possible for open syllables ( syllables without consonant codas ) and closed syllables with nasal codas.
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| 34. | In English, Yu is commonly transcriptions of English letter ( in open syllables ), and also of the digraph.
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| 35. | In particular, the long vowels sometimes arose from short vowels, via Middle English open syllable lengthening or other processes.
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| 36. | Another informal archaic trait from 17th century Parisian popular French is the tendency to open into in a final open syllable.
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| 37. | The result is that the first is pronounced as an open syllable but retains the vowel typical of a closed syllable.
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| 38. | Short vowels are also phonetically lengthened when they occur in the second syllable of a sequence of even-numbered open syllables.
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| 39. | Lax usually occurs before,, and voiceless stops, and also usually occurs in open syllables regardless of the following consonant.
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| 40. | As the length was implicit in open syllables, it was not indicated there, and only a single vowel was written.
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