Both short and long vowels can occur in any position.

As well, no distinction is made between long and short vowels.

The language makes a distinction between short and long vowels.

There are 5 short vowels each of them having a long counterpart.

There were no longer distinctions of long and short vowels in popular speech.

Like the acute, it falls on both short and long vowels.

Weak stress has a low to middle pitch and short vowels.

Ottawa has seven oral vowels, four long and three short.

Some dialects are more conservative in their treatment of short vowels.

There is a slight change in articulation between short and long vowels.