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• Cardinal vowels
  In phonetics, '''cardinal vowels''' are a set of standard reference sounds whose quality is defined independ ...of any other [[vowel]] can be measured against the quality of the cardinal vowels.
  483 bytes (65 words) - 17:39, 21 June 2014

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• Dispersion
  ...the world exactly because they are the corner vowels. In other words, the vowels that can be most reliably distinguished from each other are those that are
  1 KB (168 words) - 21:01, 12 February 2009
• Glide
  ...f the glides /j/ and /w/ the vocal tract is slightly narrower than for the vowels /i/ and /u/ respectively.
  435 bytes (68 words) - 15:35, 15 February 2009
• Intrinsic characteristics
  ...Vowels also differ in their intrinsic pitch (Lehiste & Peterson 1961). Vowels can be characterised by their specific spectral composition or [[timbre]].
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• Cardinal vowels
  In phonetics, '''cardinal vowels''' are a set of standard reference sounds whose quality is defined independ ...of any other [[vowel]] can be measured against the quality of the cardinal vowels.
  483 bytes (65 words) - 17:39, 21 June 2014
• Palatal
  ...erm also used for [[vowel]]s: front vowels are palatal, as opposed to back vowels, which are [[velar]].
  880 bytes (126 words) - 14:37, 20 February 2009
• Semivowel
  ...nd sound much like vowels. When /w/ or /j/ are produced slowly enough, the vowels /u/ and /i/ can be heard.
  546 bytes (87 words) - 18:50, 28 October 2014
• Formant synthesis
  ...ial synthesiser suitable for synthesising vowels. Consonants and nasalised vowels, on the other hand, are easier to synthesise with a parallel synthesiser.
  754 bytes (109 words) - 22:27, 13 February 2009
• Vowel harmony
  In [[Turkish]], the vowels of a [[suffix]] that are [+high] assimilate to the vowel of the stem with r
  545 bytes (86 words) - 10:00, 31 August 2014
• Southern Saamic
  *Preservation of word-final vowels in the third syllable. *Split of original short stressed vowels according to the original openness or closeness of the syllable.
  1 KB (203 words) - 14:58, 27 July 2014
• Velar
  ...term also used for [[vowel]]s: back vowels are velar, as opposed to front vowels, which are [[palatal]].
  875 bytes (127 words) - 09:02, 30 August 2014
• Mora
  ...nce in behaviour with respect to stress-rules between these two classes of vowels in quantity-sensitive languages (see [[Quantity-(in)sensitivity]]).
  918 bytes (126 words) - 19:08, 17 February 2009
• Macroparadigm
  ...fixes (''-ok, -unk''), while verb stems with [[front vowel]]s select front vowels. This variation is due to a rule of [[vowel harmony]]. Second, if a consona
  1 KB (206 words) - 16:44, 6 October 2007
• Biteblock
  ...B., Lubker, J. & Gay, T. 1979. Formant frequencies of some fixed-mandible vowels and a model of speech motor programming by predictive simulation. Journal o
  1 KB (193 words) - 13:39, 19 March 2008
• Consonant
  738 bytes (101 words) - 16:41, 25 May 2014
• Great Vowel Shift
  ...sh high vowels became diphthongs with low first element and all other long vowels were raised (see Fig. 1). For instance, in the word ''bite'' the initial /i .../e:/, and /o:/) finished the raising by around 1500; the rest of the long vowels shifted later. By 1650 the Great Vowel Shift was completed.
  3 KB (513 words) - 11:12, 24 November 2008
• Central Saamic
  *No split in the development of short stressed vowels according to the original openness or closeness of the syllable. *Loss of third syllable final vowels.
  859 bytes (124 words) - 14:25, 30 January 2013
• Nonconcatenative morphology
  ...e formed on the basis of the root ''ktb'' 'write', and a particular set of vowels:
  2 KB (306 words) - 19:55, 17 February 2009
• Window model
  ...ay occur early on in the vowel. French, on the other hand, does have nasal vowels, and to avoid confusion, nasalisation should not be perceptible too early o
  2 KB (246 words) - 15:28, 7 September 2014
• Vowel
  ...udible constriction are called [[consonant]]s; sounds intermediate between vowels and consonants are called [[semi-vowel]]s (not "semi-consonants").
  935 bytes (120 words) - 09:55, 31 August 2014
• High (sound)
  the vowels [i] and [u] differ from [a], in that the former two are specified as [+high
  533 bytes (81 words) - 15:57, 15 February 2009

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