Assertion: vowel | /r/HasProperty | long
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: in these words
type: OTHER
value: almost always
type: DEGREE
value: in its pronunciation
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Very broadly speaking, vowels are either short or long in their pronunciation, depending on how they are used in a word.
text: There are a few general “rules” that we can follow that dictate when a vowel will be long in its pronunciation.
text: If a word has only one syllable and it ends in a vowel, the vowel is often (though not always) long.
text: For instance, Yawelmani has 4 vowels (which additionally may be either long or short).
text: If there are two vowels in a word or syllable, the first vowel is usually long and the second vowel is silent, like in “boat” or “rain”.
text: A vowel at the end of a syllable is almost always long.
text: if a vowel comes before R, it changes in quality, and is neither long nor short.
text: When a syllable ends in one vowel, that vowel is usually long.
text: When a syllable ends in a silent "e", the silent "e" is a signal that the vowel in front of it is long.
text: When a syllable has 2 vowels together, the first vowel is usually long and the second is silent.
text: When a syllable ends in any vowel and is the only vowel, that vowel is usually long.
text: A vowel at the end of a syllable can be long.
text: In these words, the vowel at the end of a syllable is long: hero, hi, music.
text: There is no epenthesis, however, if the vowel preceding the cluster is long or a diphthong: fáirbre
text: ,” the vowel is long.
text: Other vowels in a word can cause a vowel to be long, rather than short.
text: Note which vowel is long (Tsere) and which are short (Segol, Chateph Segol).
text: In two-syllable words, the first vowel is usually long if there is only one consonant between it and the next vowel: