|  | 1. | They are used to differentiate polysyllabic words with otherwise identical pronunciation. 
 
 | 
|  | 2. | There are also difficulties in creating consonant clusters and polysyllabic words. 
 
 | 
|  | 3. | He was also more adept than his predecessors in working polysyllabic words into the meter. 
 
 | 
|  | 4. | Length is contrastive, but only on an initial CV syllable of a polysyllabic word. 
 
 | 
|  | 5. | Some words have three or four syllables  many polysyllabic words are formed by reduplicative derivation. 
 
 | 
|  | 6. | In a polysyllabic word, the tone of the first syllable determines the tone of the entire word. 
 
 | 
|  | 7. | His stenographic method consisted in cutting out the superfluous consonants as well as the vowels in polysyllabic words. 
 
 | 
|  | 8. | The acute accent ( ?) is sometimes used to mark a stressed final syllable in a polysyllabic word. 
 
 | 
|  | 9. | In polysyllabic words Kaqchikel and Tz'utujil have changed a final Proto-Mayan and into and respectively. 
 
 | 
|  | 10. | In polysyllabic words, the front-back distinction is lost in reduced vowels : all become mid-central. 
 
 |