word: une porte fermée → ('a closed door'). In the future and conditional forms of -er verbs, however, the schwa is sometimes deleted even after two consonants : tu garderais → ('you would guard'), nous brusquerons [les choses] → ('we will precipitate [things]'). On the other hand, it is pronounced word-internally when it follows more pronounced consonants that cannot be combined into a complex onset with the initial consonants of the next syllable: → ('scoundrel'), sept petits → ('seven little ones'). In French versification, word-final schwa is always elided before another vowel and at the ends of verses. It is pronounced before a following consonant-initial word. For example, une grande femme fut ici, in ordinary speech, would in verse be pronounced , with the enunciated at the end of each word. Schwa cannot normally be realised as a front vowel () in closed syllables. In such contexts in inflectional and derivational morphology, schwa usually alternates with the front vowel : → ('to harass'), with il harcèle → ('[he] harasses'). A three-way alternation can be observed, in a few cases, for a number of speakers: → ('to call'), j'appelle → ('I call'), → ('brand'), which can also be pronounced . Instances of orthographic that do not exhibit the behaviour described above may be better analysed as corresponding to the stable, full vowel . The enclitic pronoun , for example, always keeps its vowel in contexts like donnez-le-moi → ('give it to me') for which schwa deletion would normally apply (giving *), and it counts as a full syllable for the determination of stress. Cases of word-internal stable are more subject to variation among speakers, but, for example, un rebelle ('a rebel') must be pronounced with a full vowel in contrast to un rebond → or ('a bounce'). Length Except for the distinction still made by some speakers between and in rare minimal pairs like ('to put') vs. ('teacher'), variation in vowel length is entirely allophonic. Vowels can be lengthened in closed, stressed syllables, under the following two conditions: , , , and the nasal vowels are lengthened before any consonant: ('dough'), ('sings'). All vowels are lengthened if followed by one of the voiced fricatives—, , , (not in combination)—or by the cluster : / ('sea/mother'), ('crisis'), ('book'), However, words such as (ils) servent ('(they) serve') or ('pie') are pronounced with short vowels since the appears in clusters other than . When