Learn about open and closed syllables with Isabel Simmons. Learn about open and closed syllables with Isabel Simmons. Syllables are words or parts of words that can be said in one breath. Practice ...

And you say the short vowel sound. Now an open syllable word has a consonant and a vowel, and the vowel is the last letter in that word. That means it's open. It's not closed by another consonant.

However, evidence from vowel reduction and syncope suggest that internal syllables never bore stress in early archaic times. A typologically unusual alternative is proposed: contrary to the pattern ...

Vowels in stressed syllables in the West Germanic languages-e.g. Middle English, Middle Dutch and Middle High German-were lengthened under certain circumstances. There have been two different ...