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- ...ch vowel; for example, the lower the bottom formant ('F1'), the higher the vowel is articulated in the [[mouth]]. This image was created using the [http://w A '''vowel''' is a unit of [[language (general)|language]], defined in [[phonetics]] a9 KB (1,366 words) - 08:10, 4 September 2010
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- ''Works cited in the [[vowel]] article''193 bytes (22 words) - 23:21, 25 July 2009
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- ...les and, in some systems of phonetic transcription, a stressed mid-central vowel.185 bytes (22 words) - 18:14, 12 September 2009
- A [[vowel]] whose quality remains more or less stable during its whole articulation.120 bytes (16 words) - 09:41, 23 August 2010
- A '''monophthong''' is a [[vowel]] whose quality remains more or less stable during its whole articulation, ...st two being in fact combinations of one or two vowels as well as a [[semi-vowel]].596 bytes (92 words) - 10:11, 23 August 2010
- ...which are close together starting either with the same consonant or with a vowel.185 bytes (27 words) - 12:36, 15 December 2013
- ...it is most of the time regarded as a single sound, i.e. as some kind of [[vowel]]. ...s in '' aua''. A triphthong may also consist of two semivowels with a real vowel in between, as in ''iei''.2 KB (244 words) - 17:20, 5 March 2012
- ''Works cited in the [[vowel]] article''193 bytes (22 words) - 23:21, 25 July 2009
- ...spellings]] *shwà</ref> is the name linguists use for the most neutral of vowel sounds, the usual, weak, pronunciation of the English indefinite article '' In [[English language|English]], it can be represented by a number of vowel-letters: it is the ''u'' in ''careful'', the ''e'' in ''worker'', the ''a''1 KB (206 words) - 12:23, 13 November 2015
- The original meaning was a similarity or identity of [[vowel]] sounds at the end of a line of verse. The similarity would be in the fin The term is now more usually used of any closely associated repetition of vowel sounds, more frequently in verse, but sometimes in prose. In verse it can722 bytes (122 words) - 11:22, 8 September 2020
- ...erson plural of some verbs: ''continuiamo, dissanguiamo''. And in the four-vowel sequence of ''aiuola'' ('flowerbed') the {{IPA|[j]}} is pushing out the "u"2 KB (255 words) - 13:18, 2 February 2023
- ...und, articulated through the tongue commencing in the position of a single vowel and moving continuously in the direction of another; e.g. [əʊ] in English218 bytes (32 words) - 10:41, 10 December 2011
- [[English phonemes#Vowels and diphthongs]], list of all the vowel sounds of standard English; scroll down for '''the schwa sound''' {{r|Vowel}}959 bytes (133 words) - 17:41, 31 January 2013
- ...vowel (or the letter -m) is normally elided before a word beginning with a vowel (or an h-). Dactylic hexameter is also known as "heroic hexameter" is a for1 KB (165 words) - 05:13, 31 March 2010
- ...consonant is changed under the influence of a preceding or following front vowel or a palatal or palatalized consonant.269 bytes (40 words) - 17:15, 5 June 2008
- ...e and is most of the time regarded as a single sound (i.e. as some kind of vowel), while it is actually a succession of three distinct successive sounds, ea279 bytes (47 words) - 07:24, 6 December 2011
- ...'u'' have [[phoneme|phonemic]] length. In older written and printed Māori, vowel length is not normally indicated. Nowadays, length is most commonly indicat ! Vowel5 KB (773 words) - 05:01, 11 March 2010
- ...estrict or disallow them (e.g. Hawaiian, in which all syllables end with a vowel).352 bytes (58 words) - 02:57, 7 February 2010
- ...ch vowel; for example, the lower the bottom formant ('F1'), the higher the vowel is articulated in the [[mouth]]. This image was created using the [http://w A '''vowel''' is a unit of [[language (general)|language]], defined in [[phonetics]] a9 KB (1,366 words) - 08:10, 4 September 2010
- {{r|Vowel}}380 bytes (48 words) - 16:09, 1 February 2014
- ...rticulated through the [[tongue]] commencing in the position of a single [[vowel]] and moving continuously in the direction of another. For example, [əʊ] ...ong]] gradually evolves into a diphthong is called [[diphthongization]] or vowel breaking.2 KB (230 words) - 15:13, 15 November 2013
- {{r|Vowel}}400 bytes (50 words) - 07:40, 10 November 2010
- {{r|Vowel}}355 bytes (41 words) - 07:01, 22 December 2008
- {{r|Vowel}}376 bytes (42 words) - 14:39, 20 June 2015
- ...ff, whíff, múff''', though not always: '''íf, óf''' (*ov), '''déaf''' (two vowel letters).2 KB (271 words) - 09:37, 12 October 2013
- {{r|Vowel}}423 bytes (50 words) - 23:30, 25 July 2009
- ...the mouth; for '''w''' the lips are further apart, making the sound more [[vowel]]-like. Examples: '''vúlgar, véry, vāst, háve, wâve''', and finally in ...l'''. But it doubles before final '''y''' to emphasise that the preceding vowel is short: '''chívvy, sávvy, návvy''' (compare '''chîves''' and '''nâvy3 KB (514 words) - 08:31, 10 August 2016
- ...e second-lowest 'F2' formant correlates with how far back in the mouth the vowel is produced. This image was created using the [http://www.praat.org Praat]3 KB (429 words) - 15:04, 9 March 2024
- ...sonants, and two letters (W and Y) that can act as either a consonant or a vowel, depending on context.431 bytes (72 words) - 10:03, 6 January 2024
- {{r|Vowel}}600 bytes (79 words) - 21:34, 11 January 2010
- {{r|Vowel||**}}606 bytes (69 words) - 04:07, 15 February 2012
- ...g). A final consonant may have to be doubled in order to keep the stressed vowel short: '''sít''' becomes '''sítting''' (not '''sîting''', which is from ...'''íng''' form, a final consonant may double in order to keep the stressed vowel short: '''overláp''' becomes '''overlápping2 KB (359 words) - 15:53, 16 May 2013
- although if followed by a back vowel ('''a, o, u''') the '''c''' is pronounced '''k''': '''éxcavate''', AmE ''' But this '''x''' sound can also be written, before a front vowel, '''cc''': '''áccident''', *áxident, '''áccent, áccess, accépt, Occid�3 KB (522 words) - 17:37, 28 March 2017
- Words beginning with '''gu'''- plus a front vowel, '''e, i''' or '''y''', have the hard sound; the '''u''' is written to show ...e, i''' and '''y''' medially often preceded by a '''d''' following a short vowel: '''George, gín, gŷroscope, géntleman, geriátric, giráffe, Gërmany, h5 KB (869 words) - 12:40, 16 January 2017
- ...ish [b d g], for example, are only fully voiced between segments such as [[vowel]]s that are themselves fully voiced, while in [[Spanish language|Spanish]], ...steners into the voicing more than actual vocal fold vibration itself; the vowel in 'cat', for instance, is rather shorter than the one in 'cad', and the fi2 KB (348 words) - 06:55, 22 December 2008
- {{r|Vowel}}836 bytes (109 words) - 14:41, 14 September 2011
- ...d, háppy, háppen, náppy, rípper, cúpped, stépping''', and after an initial vowel as in '''appŏrtion, appŏintment, apprôach, applŷ, opportûnity, úpper'2 KB (377 words) - 10:23, 16 May 2013
- {{r|Vowel||**}}782 bytes (94 words) - 03:52, 15 February 2012
- ...here it is really redundant, as the '''g''' is usually followed by a front vowel, '''e, i''' or '''y''': '''bádge, lédge, bádger, lédger, rídge, brídg '''d''' is often doubled, to emphasise the preceding short vowel: '''míddle, sádder, ádd, múddle, gíddy, ódd, pádding, wédded'''. T2 KB (405 words) - 19:39, 15 May 2013
- ...ry [[palatalization|palatal]] [[articulation]], caused by the high front [[vowel]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>i:<nowiki>]</nowiki> following it, something that is la1 KB (148 words) - 20:14, 5 January 2024
- {{r|Vowel}}1 KB (129 words) - 13:51, 18 February 2024
- ...låw''' is *lå and '''lôw''' = '''lô''', unless the next word begins with a vowel: compare '''flôw''', silent '''w''', with '''flôw ón''' where the '''w'' ...''twîce, twâin''') one can put an accent on it and treat it as part of the vowel.6 KB (969 words) - 15:22, 23 January 2015
- At the end of a word, '''k''' is usual after a double or long vowel, and after '''l''', '''n''' and '''r''': '''pêak, mâke, sínk, boòk, tá ..., '''k''' merely reinforces the hard '''c''' sound and the preceding short vowel: '''clóck''' (*clók, *clóc), '''lúck, súck, néck, báck, thíck, bló4 KB (622 words) - 11:34, 15 May 2013
- {{r|Vowel}}1 KB (168 words) - 11:31, 11 January 2010
- ...ayer can then choose to spin the wheel again and earn more money, reveal a vowel for $250, or guess the words and win the puzzle's prize. If the player gues ...vealed on the puzzle, and the player guesses three more consonants and one vowel to reveal more of the phrase to them. They have 10 seconds to guess the ent3 KB (482 words) - 10:22, 25 January 2024
- ...l motivation in phonetic change: Dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift'. ''Journal of Sociolinguistics'' 8(1): 23-53.1 KB (155 words) - 17:30, 21 November 2007
- ...oubled in the middle of words to maintain the short sound of the preceding vowel: '''bétter, hítting''' (cf. '''hít'''), '''knítted''' (cf. '''knít''') ...thê''' ([[schwa]] before a following consonant, '''ê''' before a following vowel), '''thís, thát, thére, thén, òther, brêathe, lāther, hêathen''' (c5 KB (896 words) - 06:40, 18 December 2014
- But it is at its most frequent as a vowel at the end of words. Here it is often pronounced like the word '''Î''' at ...are very rare: '''sýllable, sýllabus, Lýttelton''', and, with a different vowel sound, '''mÿrrh'''.6 KB (1,096 words) - 10:09, 19 December 2016
- ...ginning of a word, starting either with the same [[consonant]] or with a [[vowel]]. In [[poetry]], the words would normally be in the same line (or, in som1 KB (193 words) - 16:42, 24 February 2015
- ...d ''beo'' 'alive'. Such consonants also affect which of Irish's 15 or so [[vowel]]s may acceptably co-occur with them. ...t̪ˠəx] 'spent bog', primary stress falls on the first member. When a short vowel is unstressed, it generally surfaces as the [[schwa]] [ə], similar to the3 KB (437 words) - 00:44, 26 February 2009
- *'''ɜ''' as the vowel sound in 'her', 'fir', 'fur' and 'work' *'''ː''' lengthens a preceding vowel4 KB (728 words) - 19:44, 25 November 2009
- ...has many words which completely change meaning with the change of a single vowel.)4 KB (554 words) - 21:47, 15 February 2010
- ...ically possible to produce, but unattested in any languages. The front low vowel [ɶ], for instance, seems to be absent from the phonology and phonetics of ...ch vowel; for example, the lower the bottom formant ('F1'), the higher the vowel is articulated in the [[mouth]]. This image was created using the [http://w5 KB (743 words) - 03:42, 9 July 2009
- It is doubled in the middle of words to keep the preceding vowel short: '''fúnny''' (from '''fún'''), '''ínner, wínning, dínner, Ánnie ...eparately (outside some regional pronunciations) and this is true before a vowel in the middle of some words: '''sínger, wínger, wrónged, bánging, Bíng3 KB (538 words) - 10:06, 16 May 2013
- If the verb ends in "y" and a vowel precedes the "y", add "s". For example, ...or example the verb permit (the verb ends with "t" (consonant) and an "i" (vowel) precedes the "t") double the final consonant and add "ed". Here are some e7 KB (1,040 words) - 11:46, 2 February 2023
- ...Е]]''' '''е''' || е {{IPA|[je]}} || '''IE ie''' (initially or after vowel: '''JE je''') || {{IPA|[je]}}, {{IPA|[ʲe]}} || ''ye'' in "''ye''t" ...Ё]]''' '''ё''' || ё {{IPA|[jo]}} || '''IO io''' (initially or after vowel: '''JO jo''') || {{IPA|[jo]}}, {{IPA|[ʲo]}} || ''yo'' in "''Yo''rk"7 KB (984 words) - 11:49, 9 November 2008
- ...s]] ([[German language|German]] ''Palatalisierung'') to refer to a type of vowel mutation more commonly referred to as ''[[i-umlaut]]'' (UK: ''i-mutation'') ...quires a secondary palatalized articulation under the influence of a front vowel or palatal or palatalized consonant. This process manifests itself in varyi6 KB (817 words) - 17:14, 5 June 2008
- ...ways on the first [[syllable]]. The [[alphabet]] contains 44 letters: 14 [[vowel]]s and 26 [[consonant]]s, plus 4 "foreign letters": ''q'', ''w'', ''x'' and1 KB (227 words) - 06:28, 16 October 2008
- ...stead of a pitch accent, so the diacritic is now used to mark the stressed vowel of a word. The acute accent marks the [[Stress (linguistics)|stressed vowel]] of a word in several languages:16 KB (2,527 words) - 16:33, 14 February 2014
- ! align="center"|[[Front vowel|Front]] ! align="center"|[[Central vowel|Central]]8 KB (1,144 words) - 09:29, 2 August 2023
- {{r|Vowel}}2 KB (277 words) - 16:52, 11 January 2010
- ..., áfterwards''', pronounced *hàad, etc. And the '''r''' is silent before a vowel in BrE '''îron''' ''metal'' = '''îon''' ''electron''. ...' and before '''ôw''' and '''y''', giving the short sound of the preceding vowel: '''árrow, márrow, búrrow, fúrrow, Térry, Dérry, cúrry, sórry, mér8 KB (1,297 words) - 07:16, 10 April 2014
- ...d ''beo'' 'alive'. Such consonants also affect which of Irish's 15 or so [[vowel]]s may acceptably co-occur with them. ...t̪ˠəx] 'spent bog', primary stress falls on the first member. When a short vowel is unstressed, it generally surfaces as the [[schwa]] [ə], similar to the4 KB (656 words) - 09:43, 30 December 2011
- It is only doubled in the middle of words, to keep the preceding vowel short: '''súmmer, slímmer, slímmed, slímming''' (cf. '''slím'''), '''d2 KB (316 words) - 09:54, 16 May 2013
- ...fect rhyme''' the two rhyming syllables have enough in common (usually the vowel sound) for the assonance to be recognisable without being identical.2 KB (322 words) - 11:58, 24 October 2014
- ...Although the spoken languages used by the drummers also had consonant and vowel-based "phonemes", the vowels and consonants proved unnecessary for the tran5 KB (762 words) - 13:19, 12 June 2021
- ...like the English ''ng'' in ''king''—or for the nasalization of a preceding vowel. The symbol is also used in several Latin-script transcriptions, such as th2 KB (366 words) - 22:54, 8 June 2016
- ...clúbber, Débbie, clúbbed, drúbbing''' - but not when written as a double vowel: '''doúble, troúble'''.2 KB (374 words) - 09:55, 3 June 2016
- *additional H put at the front of words beginning with vowel sounds, as in 'good hevening'. The lengthening of the vowel sound in (for example) grass (from gras to gra:s) was a cockney innovation5 KB (830 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- {{r|Vowel}}3 KB (354 words) - 16:41, 11 January 2010
- ...ards the front or back of the mouth, i.e. /n/ surfaces as [ŋ] after a back vowel. [n], [ŋ] and [m] can be syllabic, usually in interjections. A single cons8 KB (1,133 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- ...es in voicing, with [-s]. After a sibilant, an [[epenthesis|epenthetic]] [[vowel]] is inserted: in ''gases'', for instance, the plural is [-ɪz]. ...ot applied to new words, arguably the ''-en'' form or the alternation of a vowel do not constitute genuine plural markers. The sole productive form is ''-s'6 KB (965 words) - 09:56, 7 December 2022
- ...is, it does not use numerically-measured patterns of syllables, stresses, vowel lengths, etc.2 KB (392 words) - 16:13, 19 October 2010
- '''Obama'''<ref>Pronounced [obama], with short [[vowel]]s; cf. Barack Obama's surname, [oʊbɑ:mə] in [[American English]].</ref>3 KB (395 words) - 15:04, 15 April 2024
- ...'''coêlacanth''' (all sêe-). For the hissing sound to remain before a back vowel, a cedilla is used in '''Bàrça''' (cf. '''Barcelôna''', where no cedilla '''ci''' before a vowel can have the '''sh''' sound: '''atrôcious''' (*atrôshəss), '''précious'10 KB (1,667 words) - 13:43, 22 March 2016
- ...[capital] letter B'.</ref> <C>, etc.) as well. Consonants are similar to [[vowel]]s in this regard, but different terminology is used to describe their [[ar3 KB (444 words) - 03:31, 7 August 2009
- ...lables. [[Semitic languages]] such as Arabic indicate consonants, but some vowel information is only optionally included. Most Chinese characters represent8 KB (1,142 words) - 13:48, 18 February 2024
- ...former was the lowercase form of the latter, and they represented both the vowel [u] and the semivowel [w]. '''u''' represents three back vowel sounds, one of which ('''û''') has a variant with an initial semivowel, so9 KB (1,523 words) - 17:07, 15 February 2016
- '''l''' is single after a two-letter vowel: '''cråwl, foôl, rêal, fòul''' ''horrible'' = '''fòwl''' ''bird'', ''' ...nsonant to form a cluster without altering the long sound of the preceding vowel: '''âble, tâble, îdle, bûgle, nôble''' (cf. the double consonants in '6 KB (1,087 words) - 12:21, 4 September 2014
- ...h as [p], [f] and [s] involve an irregular wave, while sonorants such as [[vowel]]s and [[nasality|nasal]] [[consonant]]s are more regular. Obstruents which3 KB (452 words) - 12:18, 8 February 2022
- ...of sounds and signs in [[language]]. Typically, a syllable consists of a [[vowel]] and at least one [[consonant]], though various combinations are possible, ...les must have onsets.<ref>Although German has many words that begin with a vowel, phonetically a [[glottal stop]] is inserted to comply with this ''obligato18 KB (2,729 words) - 14:12, 18 February 2024
- ...l motivation in phonetic change: Dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift'. ''Journal of Sociolinguistics'' 8(1): 23-53.3 KB (444 words) - 08:58, 14 November 2007
- ...composed of "armoire" preceded by "la", which drops the "a" before another vowel: the apostrophe is there to acknowledge this. But where -'''n't''' follows a vowel sound (or a vowel-drenched '''r''' in [[American English|AmE]]), there is no new syllable: ''9 KB (1,509 words) - 09:22, 11 February 2016
- silent after a vowel, combines to form consonant sounds with preceding consonant -'''h cf. voiced '''th''' in '''thŷ''', vowel sound identical: unvoiced '''th''' in '''thîgh7 KB (1,169 words) - 20:56, 11 May 2017
- ...[plural]] ''-s'' may be optional, and the sound [l] may be realised as a [[vowel]]; for the strongest SCE speech, it does not contrast with [r].<ref>Brown a4 KB (537 words) - 05:41, 14 January 2011
- ...]]ise; for example, ''house'' was originally pronounced with the high back vowel [uː], as in ''ruse''; it lowered and centralised slightly to [aʊ] over ti10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:54, 2 March 2024
- Modern English is often dated from the [[Great Vowel Shift]] which took place mainly during the 15th century. English was furthe3 KB (486 words) - 06:22, 9 June 2009
- ...) that would be natural in American English: [sɪɾɪ] not [sɪtɪ]. Canadian [[vowel]]s are often quite different from those in the USA.<ref>Woods (1993). See a4 KB (564 words) - 00:32, 21 October 2013
- ...tions, Latin initial ''f-'' mutated into ''h-'' before a non-diphthongised vowel. | '''[[i]]''' after or before another vowel||[j] ||Resembles English ''y'' in ''yet, boy''.14 KB (2,084 words) - 12:13, 13 March 2024
- More often, as in '''nîght''', '''gh''' is silent, and quite a variety of vowel sounds and spellings can precede it: '''ŏught, sŏught, bŏught, cåught,4 KB (585 words) - 22:40, 8 June 2016
- ...rieties, these sounds will systematically change: for example, the English vowel in 'bird' emerges as [a:] in Japanese: 'bird' becomes バード ''baado'' -9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:35, 15 February 2010
- '''e''' shows various vowel sounds - or is silent. ...s -'''ëar'''- in '''hëard'''. The same sound can be found using different vowel letters in '''shïrt, bürn''' and '''wörth'''.15 KB (2,383 words) - 14:30, 13 January 2017
- ...g sound is also that of '''st''' before -'''en''' and -'''le''' (the final vowel is always schwa): '''lísten''' (*líssən), '''fāsten''' (*fāssən), ''' Before certain suffixes, '''si''' can be pronounced '''zh''' before a vowel: '''fûsion, derísion, televísion, Âsia''' (*Âzhə or *Âshə) as is ''8 KB (1,447 words) - 09:55, 8 August 2016
- ...' is silent in '''yacht''', though it affects the quality of the preceding vowel: *yót. ...'' has a silent '''h''', and occurs in the interjection '''èh?''', showing vowel length, in '''Tehràn''' (which can also be Té-), and in names from German9 KB (1,572 words) - 09:23, 18 July 2017
- ...e narrow sense, that is, a writing system using a separate symbol for each vowel and consonant alike.<ref name="Blackwell">{{cite book |last= Coulmas|first= ...ng") and vowels, where the consonant signs always had to be accompanied by vowel signs to create a pronouncable unit.41 KB (4,965 words) - 19:19, 18 February 2024
- ...way as the ''-s'' in ''cats'', and in a plural like ''dishes'', an "extra" vowel appears before the ''-s''. These cases, where the same distinction is effe ...the root and the plural marker, and [dɪʃəz] results. This is an example of vowel [[epenthesis]] in English. Similar rules apply to the pronunciation of the21 KB (3,122 words) - 04:17, 15 August 2010
- ...ing, "Teh'''e'''ran") there has developed a tendency to lengthen the first vowel to the sound in '''èh?''', making the syllable sound like '''Tây ...before a following vowel; nowadays one also hears the schwa form before a vowel. In dates, '''the''' and '''of''' are normally omitted in writing: '''10 Â14 KB (2,152 words) - 12:25, 24 July 2017
- ...are generally vowel rich; whereas languages such as German and English are vowel starved. In part, this arises from the greater vocabulary of modern languag10 KB (1,570 words) - 13:51, 23 July 2011
- *Vowel-rich, consonant-rich word *Vowel-consonant patterns in word11 KB (1,491 words) - 10:28, 8 November 2009
- **I stood for vowel or semi-vowel sounds like [i], [ɪ], [iː] or [j] (depending on the language). **U stood for vowel or semi-vowel sounds like [u], [uː], [ʊ], [y], [w] or [ɥ] (depending on the language).19 KB (2,978 words) - 06:47, 8 March 2021
- ...n, [[Tiberian Hebrew]]. Various developments such as the loss of phonemic vowel length took place after Hebrew was no longer a spoken language. Tiberian H6 KB (890 words) - 13:17, 2 February 2023
- ...; sometimes there is a redundant soft '''c''' after '''s''' before a front vowel: '''s'''c'''êne, s'''c'''îence, effervés'''c'''e ...'': very commonly as final mute '''e''', usually lengthening the preceding vowel, as in '''lât'''e''', kît'''e''', hôp'''e''', Jûn'''e; in the regula14 KB (2,068 words) - 05:11, 4 October 2017