Chapter 4 - Homework Exercise H

The six vowel allophonic patterns at the end of chapter 4 were:

1. vowels tend to be longer in open syllables than in closed ones, and longer before voiced consonants than voiceless ones..

2. vowels tend to be longer in stressed syllables.

3. vowels tend to be longest in monosyllabic words, then words with two syllables, and shortest in longer words.

4. a reduced vowel may be voiceless after a voiceless stop.

5. vowels tend to be nasalized in syllables closed by a nasal consonant.

6. vowels tend to be retracted before syllable final [l̴].

Here is an example of one of these patterns. Which pattern is it?

mad, mat

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