Encyclopedia results for Vowel

1. Vowel
   Manner of articulation In phonetics , a vowel is a sound in spoken language , such as English ah IPA ... there is a constriction or closure at some point along the vocal tract. A vowel is also understood ..
   
   
   
2. Vowel backness
   In phonetics , vowel backness is the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth in a vowel sound. Backness is usually modeled by subtracting the second formant frequency value F2 of a vowel ..
   
   
   
3. Vowel coalescence
   Vowel coalescence is a phonology phonological process in which two consecutive vowels fuse into one often long vowel. In typical cases, the resulting vowel does not coincide with any of the original vowels ..
   
   
   
4. Vowel cluster
   A vowel cluster is two or more vowel s occurring next to each other in a single syllable with no intervening consonant . Vowel clusters are distinct from diphthong s in that diphthongs are vowel combinations ..
   
   
   
5. Close vowel
   Unreferenced date February 2008 Vowels A close vowel is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken language s. The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that the tongue is positioned as close as possible ..
   
   
   
6. Central vowel
   Vowels A central vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken language s. The defining characteristic of a central vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back ..
   
   
   
7. Open vowel
   unreferenced date April 2008 Vowels An open vowel is a vowel sound of a type used in most spoken language s. The defining characteristic of an open vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far as possible ..
   
   
   
8. Vowel height
   Vowels In phonetics and phonology , vowel height is the vertical position of the tongue relative to either ... low in the mouth. The first formant of a vowel F1 usually corresponds to vowel height, with a higher ..
   
   
   
9. Vowel diagram
   A vowel diagram or vowel chart is a schematic arrangement of the vowel s. Depending from the particular ... on the diagram denotes the vowel height vowel closeness , with close vowels at the top of the diagram ..
   
   
   
10. Back vowel
    Vowels A back vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken language s. The defining characteristic of a back vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth without creating ..
    
    
    
11. Inherent vowel
    An inherent vowel is part of an abugida script. It is the vowel sound which is used with each unmarked ... with an inherent vowel can be usually changed to other graphemes by joining a tone mark or dependent ..
    
    
    
12. Vowel shift
    A vowel shift is a systematic sound change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language . The best known example in the English language is the Great Vowel Shift , which began in the 15th century ..
    
    
    
13. Vowel dimension
    A vowel dimension is an aspect of a vowel s pronunciation, involving a phonological or phonetic feature which is utilised in a language. The basic vowel dimensions are generally viewed as being vowel backness ..
    
    
    
14. Mid vowel
    unreferenced date April 2008 Vowels A mid vowel is a vowel sound used in some spoken language s. The defining characteristic of a mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned mid way between an open vowel ..
    
    
    
15. Vowel reduction
    Suprasegmental Vowel reduction is the term in phonetics that refers to various changes in the acoustic quality of vowel s, which are related to changes in stress linguistics stress , sonority , duration ..
    
    
    
16. Vowel harmony
    Sound change Vowel harmony is a type of long distance Vowel harmony Explanation see below Assimilation ... with vowel harmony, there are constraints on what vowels may be found near each other. Explanation ..
    
    
    
17. Front vowel
    unreferenced date April 2008 Vowels A front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken language s. The defining characteristic of a front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible ..
    
    
    
18. Cardinal vowel
    Cardinal vowel tongue position front.png thumb Highest tongue positions of cardinal front vowels Image Cardinal vowel chart accurate png .svg 200px thumb left Diagram of relative highest points of tongue ..
    
    
    
19. Nasal vowel
    unreferenced date April 2008 A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the Soft palate ... to the term oral vowel refers to an ordinary vowel without this nasalisation. Note that these terms ..
    
    
    
20. Vowel stems
    Unreferenced date January 2008 Mergefrom athematic date April 2008 In Indo European linguistics , a vowel stem is a noun or verb stem that ends in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun ..
    
    
    
21. Vowel length
    Suprasegmental In linguistics , vowel length is the perceived length phonetics duration of a vowel sound ... English. While not distinctive in most dialects of English language English , vowel ..
    
    
    
22. Strident vowel
    Strident vowel a.png 25px center This is found in the Charis and Doulos fonts IPA aļ , and has been ..
    
    
    
23. Close-mid vowel
    Vowels A close mid vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken language s. The defining characteristic of a close mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned two thirds of the way from a close vowel ..
    
    
    
24. Near-front vowel
    Vowels A near front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken language s. The defining characteristic of a near front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as in a front vowel , but slightly ..
    
    
    
25. Vertical vowel system
    Vowels Vertical vowel system refers to a system of vowel s in a language which requires just one vowel dimension to phonemically distinguish vowels. Theoretically, Roundedness rounding , Front vowel frontness ..