closed syllable in a sentence
Examples
- In some traditions the short vowel tended to shift to in unstressed closed syllables : this is known as the law of attenuation.
- The difference in quality is often reinforced by a difference in length ( but the difference is contrastive in final closed syllables ).
- For instance, and are found in closed syllables ending in, and only is found in closed monosyllables before,, and.
- Speaking entirely for myself, I'm a speaker of GenAm and have very monophthongal values for those vowels in closed syllables.
- Only three vocalic phonemes occur in unstressed final syllables : in open syllables only, and and in both open and closed syllables.
- The general practice was to write long vowels with a single letter in an open syllable and with two letters in a closed syllable.
- Long vowels in closed syllables are doubled, and consonants are doubled following short vowels in open syllables even when this is not etymological.
- However, often it is used in a loose sense, as a cover term referring to all shortening of long diphthongs in closed syllables.
- The close vowels and and the close portions of the diphthongs are slightly centered to and in closed syllables, i . e . before and.
- In writing out a poem's poetic metre, open syllables are symbolized by " . " and closed syllables are symbolized by " ".