closed syllable

This left no closed syllables at all in these languages.

It is written in closed syllables which do not appear at the end of the word.

Some languages like English have many kinds of closed syllables.

Old Church Slavonic, for example, had no closed syllables at all.

In closed syllables, vowels become open and sometimes centralized.

An ending could also open a previously closed syllable, which would undo the gradation.

The lowest and most central allophones occur in unstressed closed syllables.

All languages allow open syllables, but some, such as Hawaiian language, do not have closed syllables.

Proto-Kra has 4 diphthongs, which are not found in closed syllables.

The accent preferably falls upon a tense vowel within a closed syllable.

If a syllable ends with a consonant, it is called a closed syllable.

For example, a word like car should have the pattern of a "closed syllable" because it has one vowel and ends in a consonant.

The pronunciation as àà is the default case for closed syllables.

In most Germanic languages, tenseness can only occur in closed syllables.

When long vowels are in closed syllables, they are shortened:

Stressed vowels in closed syllables (those with a coda) are:

Here the closed syllable problem is resolved by inserting another vowel after the liquid consonant.

Short-high tone usually (but not always) appears in closed syllables or before /h/.

Consonant clusters result only from conjoined closed syllables.

Supyire has a noticeable syllable structure that includes no closed syllables.

The first four are tense in open syllables and lax in closed syllables.

This explains why kotiin retains a strong grade even though a closed syllable follows it.

Closed syllables only have phonetic short vowels.

Thus a closed syllable such as kal requires two aksharas to write.

The stem might be thematic or athematic, an open or a closed syllable.