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   5 days ago · Acoustically, rounded vowels are identified chiefly by a decrease in F2, although F1 is also slightly decreased. In most languages, roundedness is a reinforcing feature of mid to high back vowels rather than a distinctive feature. Usually, the higher a back vowel, the more intense is the rounding.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rhoticity_in_EnglishRhoticity in English - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · In Geordie, the merger of FACE and NEAR is recessive and has never been categorical (SQUARE has always been a distinct vowel), as FACE can instead be pronounced as the closing diphthong [eɪ] or, more commonly, the close-mid front monophthong .

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   Is U a compressed back vowel?

   • Japanese /u/, for example, is an exolabial (compressed) back vowel, and sounds quite different from an English endolabial /u/. Swedish and Norwegian are the only two known languages in which the feature is contrastive; they have both exo- and endo-labial close front vowels and close central vowels, respectively.

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   What is a vowel backness?

   • Vowel backness is named for the position of the tongue during the articulation of a vowel relative to the back of the mouth. As with vowel height, however, it is defined by a formant of the voice, in this case the second, F2, not by the position of the tongue.

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   How does a rounded vowel work?

   • Rounding is generally realized by a decrease of F2 that tends to reinforce vowel backness. One effect of this is that back vowels are most commonly rounded while front vowels are most commonly unrounded; another is that rounded vowels tend to plot to the right of unrounded vowels in vowel charts.

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   What are compressed rounded vowels?

   • Others distinguish compressed rounded vowels, in which the corners of the mouth are drawn together, from compressed unrounded vowels, in which the lips are compressed but the corners remain apart as in spread vowels. Front, raised and retracted are the three articulatory dimensions of vowel space. Open and close refer to the jaw, not the tongue.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › International_PhoneticInternational Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · In places where vowels are paired, the right represents a rounded vowel (in which the lips are rounded) while the left is its unrounded counterpart. Diphthongs. Diphthongs are typically specified with a non-syllabic diacritic, as in ui̯ or u̯i , or with a superscript for the on- or off-glide, as in uⁱ or ᵘi .

5. quizlet.com › 915819706 › vowels-and-consonantsVowels and Consonants - Categories Flashcards | Quizlet

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   6 days ago · Vowel Height (How close tongue is to top of mouth) Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Vowel Backness (How back is tongue in mouth) Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Roundedness Rounded/Unrounded

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7. www.languagehumanities.org › what-is-a-vowel-shiftWhat Is a Vowel Shift? (with pictures) - Language Humanities

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   5 days ago · Generally, a vowel shift happens over a significant period of time, usually hundreds of years, according to a shared dialect that develops gradually, and which includes more and more speakers until it naturally becomes a widespread, standard feature of the language. This kind of change is a prominent aspect of the field of historical ...

8. www.reddit.com › r › asklinguisticsDoes any language have the 5 “basic” vowels (/a ... - Reddit

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   Note: For the purposes of this question, the vowel and its unrounded/rounded counterpart don't have to be the same height, etc. so for example /a/ can be central /ä/, back /ɑ/, or front /a~æ/ or not while its rounded counterpart can be central /ɒ̈/, back /ɒ/, or front /ɶ/, so a language can have /æ/ and /ɒ/ and it’ll count. You can ...

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   6 days ago · The vowel sound /u/ is a close back vowel. It is pronounced a little farther back and higher, similar to "u" in Spanish. The vowel sound /ʊ/ is a close-mid, central-back vowel.