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	Roundedness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In phonetics, vowel roundedness refers to the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel.
		In most languages, front vowels tend to be unrounded, while back vowels tend to be rounded, but some languages, such as French and German, distinguish rounded and unrounded front vowels of the same height, while Vietnamese distinguishes rounded and unrounded back vowels of the same height.
		In endolabial rounding, the corners of the mouth are drawn slightly together and the lips may be compressed horizontally, but the lips do not protrude and only their outer surface is exposed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rounded_vowel (383 words)

	Cardinal vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For instance, the vowel of the English word "feet" can be described with reference to cardinal vowel 1, [i], which is the cardinal vowel closest to it.
		Vowel sound produced when the tongue is in an extreme position, either front or back, high or low.
		These eight vowels are known as the eight 'primary cardinal vowels', and vowels like these are common in the world's languages.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cardinal_vowel (410 words)

	Close back rounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its vowel height is close, which means the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Close_back_rounded_vowel (187 words)

	E-Intro to Old English - Appendix B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A vowel pronounced with the tongue raised, e.g.
		A vowel pronounced with the tongue and jaw lowered, e.g.
		A vowel pronounced with the lips rounded, e.g.
	www.wmich.edu /~medinst/research/rawl/IOE/ipa.html (109 words)

	Phonology: Vowels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vowels may be classified as either rounded or unrounded, as either lax or tense, and as either long or short.
		In articulating a rounded vowel, the lips are rounded.
		Vowels for which the jaw is relatively low during articulation are called, unsurprisingly, low vowels; and vowels for which the jaw is relatively high (the mouth is more nearly closed) are called high vowels.
	alpha.furman.edu /~wrogers/phonemes/phono/phvowel.htm (562 words)

	VOWEL FACTS AND INFORMATION
		In tonal_languages, in most cases the tone of a syllable is carried by the vowel, meaning that the relative pitch or the pitch contour that marks the tone is superimposed on the vowel.
		Vowels are especially important to the structures of words in languages that have very few consonants (like Polynesian_languages such as Maori and Hawaiian), and in languages whose inventory of vowels is larger than its inventory of consonants.
		Furthermore, in English some vowel sounds are represented by combinations of vowel letters, such as the ''ea'' in ''beat'' or by a vowel letter and an approximant letter, as the ''ow'' in ''how'', or the ''er'' in ''her''.
	www.redabacus.com /vowel (3119 words)

	> Vowel abcworld.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vowels usually form the peak or nucleus of a syllable, whereas consonants form the onset and coda.
		In high vowels, such as [i] and [u], the tongue is positioned high in the mouth, whereas in low vowels, such as [a], the tongue is positioned low in the mouth.
		Vowels are especially important to the structures of words in languages that have very few consonants (like Polynesian languages such as Maori and Hawaiian), and in languages whose inventory of vowels is larger than its inventory of consonants (like Sedang, a relative of Vietnamese, which contrasts 55 different vowel qualities).
	www.abcworld.net /Vowel.html (2936 words)

	Rounded_vowel
		In most languages, front vowels tend to be unrounded, while back vowels tend to be rounded, but some languages, such as French and German, distinguish between rounded and unrounded vowels at the same height and backness.
		In endolabial rounding, the corners of the mouth are drawn slightly together to form a circular opening, but the lips do not protrude and only the outer surface of the lips is exposed.
		In exolabial rounding, the lips are thrust forward to form a tunnel, as when kissing; the inner surface of the lips is exposed.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Rounded_vowel (197 words)

	CLOSE-MID FRONT ROUNDED VOWEL FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The close-mid front rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		Its vowel_backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		Its vowel_roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded.
	www.witwib.com /close-mid_front_rounded_vowel (192 words)

	Close back rounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is also a close back compressed vowel which contrasts with both the rounded and unrounded close back vowels.
		Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded and protrude, and the inner surfaces are exposed.
		The realization of this vowel in English is typically fronter than the cardinal vowel [u]; in some dialects it can be further forward than [ʉ].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close_back_rounded_vowel (209 words)

	Vowel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract, in contrast to consonants, which are characterized by a constriction or closure at one or more points along the vocal tract.
		Vowel backnessBackness refers to the tongue position during the articulation of a vowel relative to the back of the mouth.
		Vowels are especially important to the structures of words in languages that have very few consonants (like Polynesian languages such as Maori languageMaori and Hawaiian languageHawaiian), and in languages whose inventory of vowels is larger than its inventory of consonants (like Sedang languageSedang, a relative of Vietnamese languageVietnamese/, which contrasts 55 different vowel qualities).
	www.infothis.com /find/Vowel (2062 words)

	Encyclopedia: O
		Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel.
		The open back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		The NATO phonetic alphabet is a common name for the radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which assigned words to the letters of the English alphabet so that critical combinations of letters could be pronounced and understood by aircrew and air traffic controllers regardless of their...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/O (3147 words)

	Close-mid back rounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The close-mid back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.
		In GA, this vowel occurs as the first part of the diphthong [oʊ], as in hope [ˈhoʊp], go [goʊ].
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel (242 words)

	UNIL / Linguistique - phonetic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the other hand, the a vowel could not be much more close than the “standard” close vowels (first degree of aperture) and still be vocalic, rather than some kind of spirant or fricative consonant, depending on the degree of muscular tension.
		This sound is produced by articulating a very close unrounded front “vowel” (a close [i]), but without vibration of the vocal cords.
		This sound is produced by articulating a very close rounded front "vowel" (a close [y]), but the articulation is extremely brief.
	www2.unil.ch /ling/english/phonetique/api45-eng.html (248 words)

	Close-mid vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A close-mid vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
		The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.
		The close-mid vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Close-mid_vowel (111 words)

	CRL Newsletter Article 4-1
		Thus, one finds that lip round- ing is anticipated earlier and with greater precision in Swedish (a language having an elaborate set of rounded vowels) than in English (which has relatively little vowel rounding).
		Articulator displacement Lip rounding may be characterized in terms of both extension and vertical movement (raising or lowering, depending upon the region of the lip examined, and upon individual subject characteristics).
		To the extent that vowel formant frequency energy could be traced back into the portion of the waveform corresponding to the prevocalic consonant, [l], the correct productions of the anterior aphasic subjects showed patterns of labial anticipation similar to (or exceeding that of) normal speakers.
	crl.ucsd.edu /newsletter/4-1/Article1.html (5873 words)

	CLOSE BACK ROUNDED VOWEL FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its vowel_height is close, which means the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		Its vowel_backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		Its vowel_roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded and protrude, and the inner surfaces are exposed.
	velocipay.com /Close_back_rounded_vowel (165 words)

	Talentha Ilythiiri - An Overview of the High Drowish Language - The Sounds of the Drowish Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The vowel ii varies by dialect; in some it is pronounced as a distinct high-front unrounded vowel, while in others it is pronounced as a diphthongized vowel extremely similar to the Common sound in "we.
		The vowel uu is, in some dialects, pronounced as a rounded ii.
		Vowel combinations which can be used lengthened vowels but which are distinct, are separated from one another via an apostrophe (che'el - city).
	www.jashan.net /sites/conlangs/drow/phonology.html (765 words)

	ROUNDEDNESS FACTS AND INFORMATION
		In most languages, front_vowels tend to be unrounded, while back_vowels tend to be rounded, but some languages, such as and, distinguish rounded and unrounded front vowels of the same height, while distinguishes rounded and unrounded back vowels of the same height.
		There are also diacritics, respectively, to indicate greater or lesser degrees of rounding.
		For example, in the Athabaskan language, voiceless_velar_fricatives distinguish three degrees of labialization, transcribed either or.
	www.whereintheworldisbush.com /Roundedness (328 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		O is most commonly associated with the close-mid back rounded vowel {{IPAoʊ}}.
		In English language English, though, O has a short value which maps to Open back rounded vowel {{IPAɒ}} (Open back unrounded vowel {{IPAɑ}} in parts of North America), while the long value tends to a diphthong of Close-mid back rounded vowel {{IPA/o/}} and Near-close near-back rounded vowel {{IPAʊ}}.
		Common digraphs include OO (inconsistently with the sound Near-close near-back rounded vowel {{IPAʊ}} or Close back rounded vowel {{IPA/u/}}), OI (usually a diphthong of Open-mid back rounded vowel {{IPAɔ}} and Close front unrounded vowel {{IPAɪ}}), as well as OA, OE, and OU with a variety of pronunciations depending on context.
	www.mauspfeil.net /o.html (710 words)

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		The lower rounded vowels are dispreferred cross-linguistically, probably due to the greater articulatory difficulty of rounding when there is a lower jaw position.
		Violated when the vowel that is in the initial syllable in the surface representation differs from its underlying correspondent in rounding.
		I know of no harmony languages in which rounding is allowed on an initial vowel of a polysyllable in general, but not if a harmony-opaque vowel like /e/ follows.
	www.linguistics.ucla.edu /people/hayes/Acquisition/TurkishReadMe.doc (1160 words)

	News in Science - Smiling sopranos hit the high notes - 13/01/2004
		The researchers found that vocal tract resonance and pitch didn't match for rounded-mouthed vowel sounds such as 'or' and 'oo' sung at the extreme end of the range (high B and C).
		Because of this, rounded vowel sounds at higher pitches were softer and more difficult to differentiate than other vowel sounds such as 'ah' and 'aa'.
		If they sing a vowel where their vocal tract resonance coincides with the pitch the note is very loud, and if the resonance doesn't coincide with the pitch the note is very soft.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1024148.htm (584 words)

	A Contrastive Analysis of Hindi and Malayalam
		The central vowels in Malaylam are /∂, a, a: /.
		Nasalization of vowel is a peculiarity of Hindi vowels.
		These vowel clusters in pronunciation may be replaced with y or v, but in standard writing system they are retained as sequence of vowels only.
	www.languageinindia.com /sep2002/chap2.html (4776 words)

	Near-front vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A near-front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
		The defining characteristic of a near-front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as in a front vowel, but slightly further back in the mouth.
		The near-front vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Near-front_vowel (115 words)

	Alaskool
		Fading (VV`): the vowel is modified by opening the glottis, which results in a rapid fading in the volume and pitch of the vowel accompanied in some cases by breathiness.
		Following are the correspondences between the Tongass vowel nuclei and their tone reflexes in the Saanyaa dialect of Saxman-Ketchikan and the Heinyaa dialect of Klawock-Craig, as well as with the Northern dialects, which include all other Tlingit.
		Closed suffixes containing the vowel a are all short, whereas those containing the vowels i or u are long, except the contingent suffix -in/-un '(whenever)', which may plausibly be identified with the postbase -n 'with' separated from the stem by the epenthetic vowel -i/-u.
	www.alaskool.org /native_ed/literature/TongassTexts/Intro_TT.htm (2737 words)

	International Phonetic Alphabet for English - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The distinction between long and short vowels is more pronounced in British and Australian English than in American English (where many researchers do not transcribe any length for vowels at all).
		The English [o] and [e] vowels are realized as diphthongs, but they are included here with the plain vowels because the [ɪ] and [ʊ] are just off-glides.
		Diphthongs are vowel sounds that smoothly glide from one vowel to another.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_for_English (1585 words)

	Articles - Open-mid central rounded vowel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The open-mid central rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		Its vowel height is open-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel and a mid vowel.
		Its vowel backness is central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Open-mid_central_rounded_vowel?mySession=56f0ad55a8461f48471a76f8e4c8ed59 (189 words)

	Dynamics of Speech Production
		In the case of the syllable, /su/, lip rounding is achieved while we are producing the sibilant, /s/.
		Lip rounding in the the word, “construe,” begins as early as the nasal /n/ or sibilant /s/, in anticipation of the final rounded vowel.
		In this situation, consonants that are neutral for lip rounding take on a rounded posture in anticipation of a rounded vowel that will occur later in the sequence.
	gozips.uakron.edu /~jlynn/iss/coartic.htm (1020 words)

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