| 1. | For instance, it has the closed vowel / oe /.
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| 2. | The two closed vowels become glides when followed by another vowel.
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| 3. | Mongolian also has rounding harmony, which does not apply to close vowels.
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| 4. | Men have 2 passaggii for open vowels and one passaggio for closed vowels.
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| 5. | This and the long close vowels only occur in word-initial syllables.
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| 6. | Intervocalically the aspirated consonants become pre-aspirated unless followed by a closed vowel.
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| 7. | #is an allophone of, occurring only before the close vowels ( and ).
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| 8. | Vowel length is generally not important : close vowels tend to be longer than open vowels.
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| 9. | In the close vowels, the shortened and lengthened vowels remain distinct from originally short and long vowels.
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| 10. | :: We are especially talking about open and closed vowels and syntactic gemination, as I said.
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