Vowel (definition)
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Phonetically, a vowel (V) 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 of the gesture (see also Advanced Tongue Root (definition)).
- The nasality of the sound.
- The length of the acoustic signal.
See Also
External Links
- http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Vowels
- http://akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=Unstressed_vowels
- Interactive IPA Charts
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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.
