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Revision as of 16:53, 19 November 2009
The term round refers to the position of the lips when certain vowels are produced. The lips are physically rounded when these types of sounds are produced.
- Round vowels in English are [ɔ,o,u,ʊ] and the diphthong [oʊ]
- Round vowels in Gaelic are [u,u:,ũ,ũ:,o,o:,ɔ,ɔ:,ɔ̃,ɔ̃:]
Certain consonants may also be articulated with a rounded lip gesture. For example English [r] and [w] are both pronounced with lip rounding. In Gaelic labial consonants receive extra lip rounding before front vowels, when in their [[Broad (definition)|broad] form.
See Also
Tense in Phonetics (definition) Frontness (definition) Backness (definition) Height (definition)
External Links
References
- Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
