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Revision as of 07:52, 14 June 2012
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 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
- Consonant (definition)
- Sounds of Scottish Gaelic
External Links
- http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Vowels
- http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Unstressed_vowels
- Interactive IPA Charts
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel
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.
