⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Cardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of languages...

rounded vowel. However, acoustic analysis of cardinal vowels as produced by Daniel Jones and John C. Wells has shown that basically all cardinal front rounded...

Such a diagram is called a vowel quadrilateral or a vowel trapezium. Different vowels vary in pitch. For example, high vowels, such as [i] and [u], tend...

unrounded vowels. In the International Phonetic Alphabet vowel chart, rounded vowels are the ones that appear on the right in each pair of vowels. There...

determine a vowel's quality as distinguishing it from other vowels. Daniel Jones developed the cardinal vowel system to describe vowels in terms of the...

practical solution through his scheme of 'cardinal vowels', a relatively simple system of reference vowels which for many years has been taught systematically...

unrounded vowel, or low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. It is one of the eight primary cardinal vowels, not...

protruded rounding, more like [ɔ] than the neighboring cardinal vowels. Because back rounded vowels are assumed to have protrusion, and few descriptions...

Look up Cardinal or cardinal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to Cardinalidae, a family of North and...

vowel is a vowel sound in which the body or root of the tongue is pulled backward and downward into the pharynx. The most retracted cardinal vowels are...

vowel is a vowel sound in which the body of the tongue is raised upward and backward toward the dorsum (soft palate). The most raised cardinal vowels...

vowel and that used for the THOUGHT vowel, while older speakers use a more open quality, between Cardinal Vowels 13 and 6." Dum-Tragut (2009:13) Traunmüller...

makes the vowels shorter as well. Vowels which have undergone vowel reduction may be called reduced or weak. In contrast, an unreduced vowel may be described...

final word in the unit. Babylonian vocalization Hebrew cantillation Cardinal vowels Niqqud Palestinian vocalization Tiberian Hebrew The portions of the...

pairings shown above include also differences in vowel quality. The vowels called "long" high vowels in RP /iː/ and /uː/ are slightly diphthongized, and...

articulation, vowels are defined in relation to a set of reference vowels called cardinal vowels. Three properties are needed to define vowels: tongue height...

prototypical [ɪ] is somewhat further back (near-front) than the neighboring cardinal vowels. It is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded. T-diaeresis...

transcription delimiters. A Chinese vowel diagram or Chinese vowel chart is a schematic arrangement of the vowels of the Chinese language, which usually...

close cardinal vowel sounds: In addition, some authors consider the rhotic approximants [ɹ], [ɻ] to be semivowels corresponding to R-colored vowels such...

the height of the vowel. Thus open vowels typically have lower fundamental frequency than close vowels in a given context, and vowel recognition is likely...

near-open back unrounded vowel (a sound between cardinal [ɑ] and [ʌ]), which can be transcribed in IPA with ⟨ɑ̝⟩ or ⟨ʌ̞⟩. Its vowel height is open, also known...

appearing before vowels. Velars [k kʰ x ɣ] are restricted to appearing everywhere except before front vowels. In other words: Before back vowels and front rounded...

Greek has a system of five vowels /i, u, e, o, a/. The first two are close to the cardinal vowels [i, u]; the mid vowels /e, o/ are true-mid [e̞, o̞];...

respective states. Bangladesh also has some speakers. Kurukh has five cardinal vowels. Each vowel has long, short nasalized and long nasalized counterparts. The...

presenters on television. The close vowels /i, y, u/ are similar to the corresponding cardinal vowels [i, y, u]. The mid vowels are phonetically mid [e̞, ø̞...

IPA defines a vowel as a sound which occurs at a syllable center. Below is a chart depicting the vowels of the IPA. The IPA maps the vowels according to...

Long vowels may have stød, thus making it possible to distinguish 30 different vowels in stressed syllables.[citation needed] However, vowel length[citation...

Visible Speech. Vowels and consonants were placed in a single chart, reflecting how sounds ranged in openness from stops (top) to open vowels (bottom). The...

bɛn]. Dutch has an extensive vowel inventory consisting of thirteen plain vowels and at least three diphthongs. Vowels can be grouped as front unrounded...

mid counterparts /e, ə, o/. Vowel description The vowels listed below do not include nasalized vowels. Nasalized vowels are marked by a tilde, e.g. /ĩ/...