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Revision as of 23:27, 14 November 2009
Phonetically, a vowel is a sound that can be produced without a complete closure of the mouth (or cause friction). There are six different ways you can classify vowels phonetically:
- . The rounding of the lips,
- . The frontness or [[Backness (definition)|backness of the tongue body
- . The height of the tongue body.
- . The tenseness (see also Advanced Tongue Root (definition)) of the gesture.
- . Vowels can be nasal
- . Vowels can also be long or short
See Also
External Links
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.
