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	In the Great Plains dialect (and by extension the Standard), open syllable lengthening was blocked before voiceless plosives.		In the Great Plains dialect (and by extension the Standard), open syllable lengthening was blocked before voiceless plosives.

	The Westlandic dialect underwent the law of open syllables: where possible, consonants in the syllable coda were resyllabified into the onset of the following syllable.		The Westlandic dialect underwent the law of open syllables: where possible, consonants in the syllable coda were resyllabified into the onset of the following syllable. Consequently, more syllables became analysed as open in Westlandic than in other dialects, and open syllable lengthening affected a greater number of words.