- A
vowel is one of the two prin****l cl****es of
speech sound, the
other being a consonant.
Vowels vary in quality, in
loudness and also in
quantity (length)...
- In linguistics,
vowel length is the
perceived duration of a
vowel sound.
Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant, and may have arisen...
- A
vowel diagram or
vowel chart is a
schematic arrangement of the
vowels.
Depending on the
particular language being discussed, it can take the form of...
- A
front vowel is any in a cl**** of
vowel sound used in some
spoken languages, its
defining characteristic being that the
highest point of the
tongue is...
- The
Great Vowel Shift was a
series of
changes in the
pronunciation of the
English language that took
place primarily between 1350 and the 1600s and 1700s...
- is the mid
central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the
middle of the
vowel chart,
denoted by the IPA
symbol ə, or
another vowel sound close to that...
- A back
vowel is any in a cl**** of
vowel sound used in
spoken languages. The
defining characteristic of a back
vowel is that the
highest point of the tongue...
- A
close vowel, also
known as a high
vowel (in
American terminology), is any in a cl**** of
vowel sound used in many
spoken languages. The
defining characteristic...
- language, a low
vowel can be any
vowel that is more open than a mid
vowel. That is, open-mid
vowels, near-open
vowels, and open
vowels can all be considered...
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Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance ****imilatory
phonological process involving vowels that
occurs in some languages. A
vowel or
vowels in a word...