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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.
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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
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• Glide
  ...f the glides /j/ and /w/ the vocal tract is slightly narrower than for the vowels /i/ and /u/ respectively.
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• 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.
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• Palatal
  ...erm also used for [[vowel]]s: front vowels are palatal, as opposed to back vowels, which are [[velar]].
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• Semivowel
  ...nd sound much like vowels. When /w/ or /j/ are produced slowly enough, the vowels /u/ and /i/ can be heard.
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• Formant synthesis
  ...ial synthesiser suitable for synthesising vowels. Consonants and nasalised vowels, on the other hand, are easier to synthesise with a parallel synthesiser.
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• Vowel harmony
  In [[Turkish]], the vowels of a [[suffix]] that are [+high] assimilate to the vowel of the stem with r
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• 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.
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• Velar
  ...term also used for [[vowel]]s: back vowels are velar, as opposed to front vowels, which are [[palatal]].
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• Mora
  ...nce in behaviour with respect to stress-rules between these two classes of vowels in quantity-sensitive languages (see [[Quantity-(in)sensitivity]]).
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• 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
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• 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
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• Consonant
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Nonconcatenative morphology
  ...e formed on the basis of the root ''ktb'' 'write', and a particular set of vowels:
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• 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
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• Vowel
  ...udible constriction are called [[consonant]]s; sounds intermediate between vowels and consonants are called [[semi-vowel]]s (not "semi-consonants").
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• High (sound)
  the vowels [i] and [u] differ from [a], in that the former two are specified as [+high
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• Intonation
  ...n carries information that is not provided by the stream of consonants and vowels. It might tell the listener whether the sentence is a question or a stateme
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• Sonorant
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• Chain shift
  ...ehind by the diphthongization (Fig. 1b). Finally, the remaining three long vowels /ɛ:/, /ɔ:/ and /a:/ were raised.<br> ...ut of their slots (Fig. 2a). This changed was followed by a drag of lower vowels upwards (Fig. 2b).
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• Continuant
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• Antiformant
  ...ntiformants are more marked in nasal consonants than in nasal or nasalized vowels because consonants are articulated with a complete occlusion of the oral ca
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• Melody tier
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• Contour tone
  In Igbo the word àkàla 'cup' has two vowels with a low tone; the final vowel, however, has a sequence of a low tone and
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• Transition
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• Articulography
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• High vowel
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• Source-filter theory
  ....yale.edu/haskins/HEADS/MMSP/figure3.html Source-Filter Model for Selected Vowels]
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• Mid vowel
  ...at a level intermediate between [[high vowel|high]] and [[low vowel|low]] vowels.
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• Vowel space
  ...e [[vowel quality|vowel qualities]], i.e. where in the mouth the different vowels are produced with respect to the position of the [[tongue]] and which are t * [http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/vowels.html IPA Vowel Chart]
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• Tense vowel
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• Sonority hierarchy
  vowels > [[sonorant]] consonants > [[obstruent]]s (Zec 1995), vowels > glides > liquids > nasals > [[obstruent]]s (Clements 1990)
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• Morphologization
  ...had the '-i' plural-suffix. Thus the phonological rule which changed stem-vowels from back to front in the context of the affixal front-vowel ''i'', changed
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• Low vowel
  ...e of the oral cavity, enhancing the acoustic features that distinguish low vowels from other heights.
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• Eastern Saamic
  *Loss of final vowels in third syllables and (except in Inari) in second syllables.
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• Advanced tongue root
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• Umlaut
  '''Umlaut''' is the phonological process in which back vowels or diphthongs are fronted due to (a) a following front vowel, or (b) a spec
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• Voice quality
  ...onological system of a language. Breathiness, for example, is phonemic for vowels in Gujarati and for stops in Igbo (Ladefoged &amp; Maddieson, 1996)
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• Geminate
  ...tion]] than its [[singleton]] counterpart. This phenomenon is akin to long vowels, represented a [Vː]. However, geminates are frequently represented as a se
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• Metrical phonology
  ...68), in which stress is considered a property of individual segments (i.e. vowels). In metrical phonology, stress is seen as a relational property obtaining
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• Interfix
  ...for ''ad'' in ''anim-ad-vert'', or ''t'' inserted as a fulcrum between two vowels as ''ego-t-ism''."'' (Haldeman 1865:§65, cited from OED)
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• Stress subordination principle
  ...this analysis stress assignment rules assign the [[feature]] [1stress] to vowels. The operation of subsequent stress rules is subject to stress lowering in
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• Anton Semënovič Budilovič
  ...e, separately for vowels and consonants. The percentual frequencies of the vowels can be taken from Table 1 (cf. Budilovič 1883: 67): [[Image:Vowels.jpg]]
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• International Phonetic Alphabet
  * [[Vowels]] (organized by [[tongue height]] and [[tongue backness|backness]], and by
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• Assimilation
  ...neighbouring labial segment [p]. When assimilation takes place between two vowels it is more commonly referred to as [[vowel harmony]].
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• Peter Ladefoged
  * Ladefoged (2001). ''Vowels and consonants: An introduction to the sounds of languages''. Oxford: Black
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• Osthoff's law
  '''Osthoff's law''' is a tendency of Proto-Indo-European long vowels to shorten when they were followed by a sonorant and another consonant.
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• Natürliche Phonologie
  *P. J. Donegan, On the Natural Phonology of Vowels. Diss. Ohio State Univ. 1979 [N. Y. 1985].
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• North Saami
  ...ong vowels and diphthongs show front-back umlaut variation, stressed short vowels might be lengthened depending on the quantity of the following consonants,
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• Syllable weight
  ...ge-specific requirements there can be an opposition between short and long vowels: V and VC group together as light as opposed to VV which is heavy.
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• Irish
  ...by the consonant /x/, and both the first and third syllables contain short vowels, the stress falls on the second syllable. In all other cases (apart from th In the northern dialect, long vowels appear only in stressed syllables; they are shortened in unstressed syllabl
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• Swedish Phonology
  ...hart.html IPA]. The IPA is a set of phonetic symbols to which for instance vowels and consonants belong. They form a large phonetic inventory which, on the o === Vowels ===
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• Stress
  ...greater [[duration]] or greater accuracy of articulation (most notably in vowels).
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• Hadza
  ...oubled consonants are used for glottalized/ejective consonants and doubled vowels for glottal stop, with the apostrophe only being used for the Swahili conve ...n practice, the Hadza are more likely to write an epenthetic glide between vowels in hiatus, e.g. ⟨aye⟩ for /ae/ vs ⟨ae⟩ for /aʔe/.
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• Japanese
  ...minor differences can be found. One such difference can be found with long vowels. When writing in Hiragana, long vowels are marked with other Hiragana. ようせい　(陽性, ''positivity''): ''
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• Affixes
  ...e from Bickel & Nichols (in press) shall demonstrate this once again. (All vowels within the domain of a Turkish phonological word [[Vowel harmony|harmonize]
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• Tomislav Maretić
  ...of consonants renders a language “harder”, whereas a higher percentage of vowels makes it “weeker” – meaning that it is more or less easy to pronounce
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• Kaili (en)
  === Vowels === /ʔ/ can be written <’> if necessary (e.g. between identical vowels)
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• Tsez
  ...p]] (ʔ) is not phonemic but occurs automatically before non-pharyngealized vowels in word-initial position. ===Vowels===
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  *1968d. A note on Faroese vowels. Glossa 2.11-16. *1979b. Adverbs, Vowels, and Other Objects of Wonder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Contain
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• Phonologische und phonetische Universalien
  :2. Four vowels (V) include /ɨ/ or /ɛ/.
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