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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.
  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.
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• 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
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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.
  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
• 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
  747 bytes (102 words) - 22:14, 15 February 2009
• 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
  648 bytes (91 words) - 17:05, 6 February 2008
• Melody tier
  615 bytes (88 words) - 07:46, 15 October 2007
• 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
  587 bytes (90 words) - 09:52, 16 May 2008
• Transition
  479 bytes (68 words) - 19:49, 29 August 2014
• Articulography
  727 bytes (99 words) - 13:36, 8 February 2008
• High vowel
  354 bytes (48 words) - 20:20, 3 July 2014
• Source-filter theory
  ....yale.edu/haskins/HEADS/MMSP/figure3.html Source-Filter Model for Selected Vowels]
  591 bytes (78 words) - 07:35, 4 November 2014
• 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]
  591 bytes (89 words) - 10:44, 31 August 2014
• 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.
  660 bytes (87 words) - 18:48, 28 June 2014
• 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
  869 bytes (113 words) - 18:32, 20 September 2014
• 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]].
  2 KB (224 words) - 16:56, 15 June 2014
• 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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