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a vowel can be looked at two ways: phonetically (vocalic) and phonologically (vocoid). Phonetically, a vowel is a sound that can be produced without a complete closure of the mouth (or cause friction). There are three different ways you can classify vowels phonetically. They are by nasality, position of the lips, and vowel height. Nasality refers to air also leaving the nose when the sound is produced. Position of the lips refers to if the lips are rounded, spread, or neutral when the vowel is produced. Vowel height refers to the position of the tongue when the vowel is produced. From a phonological point, a vowel is the center of a syllable. There are also glides, which involve the use of a vowel with other consonants that have vowel like qualities in order to make certain types of vowel like sounds.  
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[[File:IPA vowels.gif|thumb|right|https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-charts/vowels/)]]
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Phonetically, a '''vowel (V)''' is a sound produced with a fairly open configuration of the vowel tract and the vibration of the vocal folds; notably, articulators in the vocal tract are adequately distant so as not to create audible frication. Vowels typically form the nuclei of syllables and are often described with the following features:
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# The rounding of the lips,
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# The [[Frontness (definition)|frontness]] or [[Backness (definition)|backness]] of the tongue body,
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# The [[Height (definition)|height]] of the tongue body,
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# The [[Tense (phonetics)|tenseness]] of the gesture (see also [[Advanced Tongue Root (definition)]]),
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# The [[Nasal (definition)|nasality]] of the sound, and
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# The [[Length (definition)|length]] of the acoustic signal.
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In the graphic on the right, a segment's placement in the trapezoid approximates its place of articulation and corresponds with its height and backness (i.e. [i] has +high and +front features). Although many of the features listed above reference articulatory gestures, vowel quality is often determined by the acoustic properties of the signal. First and second format frequencies are commonly used to identify and distinguish between vowels, where F1 contains inverse height information and F2 communicates backness information.
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''For a complete description of Gaelic consonants and its phoneme inventory, see the main article at [[Sounds of Scottish Gaelic]].''
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==See Also==
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*[[Consonant (definition)]]
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*[[Sounds of Scottish Gaelic]]
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==External Links==
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*[http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html Interactive IPA Charts]
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*http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Vowels
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*http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Unstressed_vowels
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The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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*Crystal, David. (1997) ''A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics.''  Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
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*Ladefoged, Peter (1993) ''A Course in Phonetics'' Third Edition. London: Harcourt Press.
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*Matthews, P. H. (1997) ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.
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Latest revision as of 20:06, 25 October 2020

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Phonetically, a vowel (V) is a sound produced with a fairly open configuration of the vowel tract and the vibration of the vocal folds; notably, articulators in the vocal tract are adequately distant so as not to create audible frication. Vowels typically form the nuclei of syllables and are often described with the following features:

  1. The rounding of the lips,
  2. The frontness or backness of the tongue body,
  3. The height of the tongue body,
  4. The tenseness of the gesture (see also Advanced Tongue Root (definition)),
  5. The nasality of the sound, and
  6. The length of the acoustic signal.


In the graphic on the right, a segment's placement in the trapezoid approximates its place of articulation and corresponds with its height and backness (i.e. [i] has +high and +front features). Although many of the features listed above reference articulatory gestures, vowel quality is often determined by the acoustic properties of the signal. First and second format frequencies are commonly used to identify and distinguish between vowels, where F1 contains inverse height information and F2 communicates backness information.


For a complete description of Gaelic consonants and its phoneme inventory, see the main article at Sounds of Scottish Gaelic.

See Also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

  • Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Ladefoged, Peter (1993) A Course in Phonetics Third Edition. London: Harcourt Press.
  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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