21. It was stressed open syllables; they were short when they occurred in " checked " or closed syllables . 22. Long and short vowels are only contrastive in open syllables; in closed syllables , all vowels are always short. 23. In the remaining closed syllables dialectal / a / generally corresponds to classical, while classical and have merged into. 24. All tone contours are possible for open syllables ( syllables without consonant codas ) and closed syllables with nasal codas. 25. Some Quebecers diphthongize the vowel as in final closed syllables ( " p�te "'dough'). 26. In French and Italian, the distinction between low-mid and high-mid vowels occurred only in closed syllables . 27. The result is that the first is pronounced as an open syllable but retains the vowel typical of a closed syllable . 28. As in Dutch, long vowels were often written doubled in closed syllables , and they were often long in open syllables. 29. The clusters have vowel components of equal length in stressed closed syllables ( either primary or medial stress ) with mid tone. 30. This was evident in Old Church Slavonic, which had no closed syllables at all : every syllable ended in a vowel.
