| 31. | The semivowel is devoiced ( IPA symbol ) if the tone rises and the following vowel is,,.
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| 32. | Before fricatives, nasal consonants may be realized as nasalized semivowels, analogous to and ( see nasalized palatal approximant.
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| 33. | For the semivowels, the deviations result from simplifications that occur when these consonants are preceded and followed by vowels.
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| 34. | :Native speakers say'a'before a consonant or semivowel, and'an'before a vowel.
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| 35. | In Spanish, too, [ jj ] is used to represent the palatal fricative against the semivowel [ j ].
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| 36. | For example, do not consider the labiodental approximant to be a semivowel while proposes that it should be considered one.
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| 37. | In addition, some authors consider the rhotic approximants, to be semivowels corresponding to R-colored vowels such as.
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| 38. | In some dialects and speech registers, the semivowel assimilates into a following or and produces the front rounded vowels and.
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| 39. | Before a vowel, the or in the second and third stem became the semivowel or ?, and was lost.
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| 40. | Palatalization, as a sound change, is usually triggered only by close ( high ) front vowels and the semivowel.
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