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	Vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vowel (3285 words)

	Vowel - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Vowels usually form the peak or nucleus of a syllable, whereas consonants form the onset and coda.
		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).
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /vowel.htm (1899 words)

	Kensonelezh vogalennek - Wikipedia
		Some have speculated that the vowel harmony of the northwestern Finno-Ugric languages influenced the phonological phenomenon of umlaut that most of the living Germanic languages display.
		Non-initially, the neutral vowels are transparent to and unaffected by vowel harmony.
		Vowel harmony is a grammaticalized feature of phonotactics, thus it may not work as expected from pure phonology, as evidenced by tuotteeseensa (not *tuotteeseensä).
	br.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kensonnelezh_vogalennek (704 words)

	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 the International Phonetic Alphabet vowel chart, rounded vowels are the ones that occur on the right in each pair of vowels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vowel_roundedness (383 words)

	Open-mid front unrounded vowel:
		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 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 unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Open-mid_front_unrounded_vowel (121 words)

	Encyclopedia: Close back rounded vowel
		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.
		In phonetics, vowel height refers to the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth in a vowel sound.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Close-back-rounded-vowel (1545 words)

	Vowel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some languages allow sounds that wouldn't normally be classified as vowels to form the nucleus of a syllable, such as the sound of m in the English word prism, or the sound of r in the Czech word vrba (meaning "willow").
		Height refers to the tongue position during the articulation of a vowel relative to the roof and bottom of the mouth.
		Vowels are de-voiced in whispered speech, and in Japanese, vowels that are low pitched and between voiceless consonants are de-voiced.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/vowel (1675 words)

	Vowel harmony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kazakh's system of vowel harmony is primarily a front/back system, but there is also a system of rounding harmony that is not represented by the orthography, which strongly resembles the system in Kyrgyz.
		Vowel harmony is present in all Yokutsan languages and dialects.
		Linguists theorize that the transformation of "e" to "a" is due to a vestigial system of vowel harmony (the voicing of "h" as "b" is due to rendaku).
	www.tocatch.info /en/Vowel_harmony.htm (1879 words)

	close central unrounded vowel - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The close central unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		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 central, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Close-central-unrounded-vowel (179 words)

	Vowel articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vowel heightHeight refers to either the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth or the aperture of the jaw.
		Vowel backnessBackness refers to the horizontal 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.
	www.startlearningnow.com /vowel.htm (3389 words)

	Vowel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vowel heightHeight refers to the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth.
		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)

	Near-close near-front unrounded vowel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The near-close near-front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		Its vowel height is near-open, which means the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted.
		Its vowel backness is near-front, which means the tongue is positioned as in a front vowel, but slightly further back in the mouth.
	www.olive-oil-facts.info /en/wikipedia/n/ne/near_close_near_front_unrounded_vowel.html (106 words)

	Open front unrounded vowel - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		The open central unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		For languages that only have a single low vowel, the symbol for this vowel (a) is usually used because it is the only low vowel whose symbol is part of the basic Latin alphabet.
		In the English dialects of RP and GA, this vowel occurs only as the first part of the diphthongs [aɪ], as in light [laɪt], buy [baɪ]; and [aʊ], as in how [haʊ], pout [paʊt].
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Open_front_unrounded_vowel (230 words)

	Encyclopedia: Close front unrounded vowel
		The close front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are spread.
		Categories: Vowels The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Close-front-unrounded-vowel (1388 words)

	Close-mid back rounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	Close front unrounded vowel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The close front unrounded vowel is a type of (A speech sound made with the vocal tract open) vowel sound, used in some (Click link for more info and facts about spoken) spoken (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) languages.
		The vowel [i] is a very common vowel, as it occurs in most languages – even languages that have only three vowels almost always include [i].
		A languages that lacks [i] is one with an extremely marginal vowel (The study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes) phonology.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/close_front_unrounded_vowel.htm (245 words)

	VOWEL FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		However, some languages treat roundedness and backness separately, such as French and German (with front rounded vowels), most Uralic_languages (has a rounding contrast for /o/ and front vowels), Turkic_languages (with an unrounded /u/), Vietnamese (with back unrounded vowels), and Korean (with a contrast in both front and back vowels).
		Long vowels are written in the IPA with a triangular colon, which has two equilateral triangles pointing at each other in place of dots ().
		English has all three types: the vowel sound in ''hit'' is a monophthong, the vowel sound in ''boy'' is in most dialects a diphthong, and the vowel sounds of ''way'', ''flower'' (BrE AmE) form a triphthong (dissylabic in the latter cases), although the particular qualities vary by dialect.
	www.witwib.com /index.php?s=vowel (3119 words)

	yourDictionary.com • Library: The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
		Saying exactly which vowel appears in a certain language is very difficult, because everyone pronounces their vowels in a slightly different way.
		These vowels differ in terms of roundedness; the one on the left is an unrounded vowel, while the one on the right is a rounded vowel.
		Roundedness refers to the shape of your lips when pronouncing a vowel: [u] is rounded, [a] is not.
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/ipa.html (2051 words)

	Close-mid front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The close-mid front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		In RP, this vowel occurs only as the first part of the diphthong [eɪ], as in late [leɪt], play [pleɪ].
		Many languages, such as Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish, have a mid front unrounded vowel, which to speakers is clearly distinct from both the close-mid and open-mid vowels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel (328 words)

	Vowel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Long vowels are usually written in the IPA with a colon: For some reason, in the Germanic languages, long vowels tend to be very unstable.
		English vowels are de-voiced in whispered speech, and in Japanese, vowels that are low pitched and between voiceless consonants are de-voiced.
		Often, these co-occur with tones or stress patterns; in the Mon language, vowels pronounced in "high tone" are also given a creaky voicing.
	www.eurofreehost.com /vo/Vowel_3.html (377 words)

	Open-mid back rounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The open-mid back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		The name open-o represents the sound, in that it is like the sound represented by [o], the close-mid back rounded vowel, except it is more open.
		Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open-mid_back_rounded_vowel (220 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A vowel dimension is an aspect of a vowel's pronunciation, involving a phonological or phonetic feature which is utilised in a language.
		The first formant of a vowel (F1) usually corresponds to vowel height, with a higher F1 corresponding to a lower vowel height and a lower F1 corresponding to a higher vowel height.
		Vowel stems, in Indo-European linguistics, are the stems of nouns or verbs that are thematic.
	www.alanaditescili.net /browse.php?title=V/VO/VOW (637 words)

	Nasal vowel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In many languages, vowels that are adjacent to (A continuant consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed) nasal consonants are produced partially or fully with a lowered velum.
		In (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French, nasal vowels have phonemic status, since words can differ only in whether a vowel is nasalized or not.
		For example, the words sait "knows" and saint "saint" are pronounced the same, except the vowel in saint is nasal and the vowel in sait is oral.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nasal_vowel.htm (179 words)

	All words on Close-mid front unrounded vowel
		Discussion of this vowel can easily become confusing for English speakers, as the English name of the symbol, the letter e, is pronounced with a different vowel, [i], the close front unrounded vowel.
		This vowel does not occur by itself in English, but it forms the first part of the diphthong [eɪ], which is the sound of the name of the letter A—another result of the Great Vowel Shift.
		This vowel occurs in Spanish, and is the sound represented by the letter e in bebé (="baby").
	www.allwords.org /cl/close-mid-front-unrounded-vowel.html (538 words)

	Encyclopedia: Greek-language
		Koine had seven vowels, two of which Î· and Ï were long, two Îµ and Î¿ were short and three Î±, Î¹, Ï were either long or short.
		Alongside the individual vowels there were six special vowel-vowel combinations given the name of diphthongs Î±Î¹, Î±Ï, ÎµÎ¹, ÎµÏ, Î¿Î¹ and Î¿Ï.
		Most noticeably, the vowels i, Ä“, y, and diphthongs ei, oi (Î¹, Î·, Ï, ÎµÎ¹, Î¿Î¹) have all become i in modern Greek but subtle differences in their pronunciation can still be heard.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greek_language (8086 words)

	CLOSE BACK ROUNDED VOWEL FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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_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 ; in some dialects it can be further forward than.
	velocipay.com /Close_back_rounded_vowel (165 words)

	Open front rounded vowel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The open front rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɶ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is &.
		Its vowel height is open, which means the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /o/op/open_front_rounded_vowel.html (112 words)

	open back unrounded vowel:
		The open back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		The symbol ɑ is called script a because it lacks the extra hook on top of a printed letter 'a', which corresponds to a different vowel, the open front unrounded vowel.
		In AuE, this vowel occurs only as the first part of the diphthong [ɑe], as in light [lɑet], buy [bɑe].
	wikipedia.openfun.org /en/wikipedia/o/op/open_back_unrounded_vowel.html (238 words)

	physics - Close central unrounded vowel
		For some dialects of English that distinguish between two reduced vowels, barred-i is used to transcribe the closer of the two vowels; the more open reduced vowel is transcribed with ə (schwa).
		The symbol ɨ is also occasionally used to transcribe the unstressed vowel of English belly, when that vowel is analysed as a phoneme on its own (sometimes called schwi), in order to show that it is neither long /i/ nor lax /ɪ/.
		Schwi is not pronounced as a close central unrounded vowel, but is a short [i] or [ɪ], depending on dialect or idiolect.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Close_central_unrounded_vowel (285 words)

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