Height (definition)

Height is a vocalic feature that refers to the vertical position of the tongue body, specifically its distance from the roof of the mouth. There are three levels of this feature: high, low, and mid. [i, ɪ, ʊ, u] are the high vowels of English. [e, ɛ, ɔ, o, ʌ, ə] are the mid vowels of English, and [æ, ɑ] are the low vowels of American English (other dialects have other low vowels).

See Also

• Vowel (definition)
• Frontness (definition)
• Backness (definition)

External Links

• https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/articulation/describing-vowels.html

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_height

References

• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ladefoged, D. (2010) A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.