open syllable

Open syllables are much more common than closed ones.

Open syllables are those in which the nucleus is followed:

Vowels are long when stressed and in an open syllable, otherwise short.

The base phone of the vowels occurs in initial open syllables with stress.

This resulted in many open syllables with weak grades.

In writing out a poem's poetic metre, open syllables are symbolized by "."

In French and Italian, these changes occurred only in open syllables.

Short vowels are frequently omitted, especially where they would occur as the final element of an open syllable.

They did however merge consistently when they were later lengthened in open syllables.

The resulting scarcity of open syllables has been criticized on typological grounds.

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

Isthmus Zapotec has only open syllables (that is, they must end in a vowel).

If a syllable ends with a vowel, it is called an open syllable.

Afitti has both closed and open syllables.

Like all Slavic languages, Old Russian was a language of open syllables.

In open syllables, only long vowels occur.

Vowel length is only contrastive in open syllables.

Open syllables are syllables in which a vowel appears at the end of the syllable.

(This allows the phonotactics of the language to be defined as requiring open syllables.)

(This assumes that all apparent cases of short open syllables are better described as ending in a glottal stop.

The Miḏyoyo dialect also reduces vowels in pre-stress open syllables.

In the development of French, no fewer than five vowels diphthongized in stressed, open syllables.

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

His tongue worked soundlessly, forming the opening syllables first of one word, then of the other, over and over again.

Open syllables of type CV are the most abundant in Czech texts.