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characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned one third of the way from a close vowel to an open vowel. The close-mid vowels that have dedicated...

protruded front vowels. One of them, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close near-front rounded vowel, with Swedish...

The close-mid central rounded vowel, or high-mid central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...

(endolabial) close-mid back vowel, but the height of both vowels varies from close to close-mid. Its vowel height is close-mid, also known as high-mid, which...

Alphabet is the mid central vowel with ambiguous rounding [ə]. The IPA divides the vowel space into thirds, with the close-mid vowels such as [e] or [o]...

The close-mid front unrounded vowel, or high-mid front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...

The close-mid back unrounded vowel, or high-mid back unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Its symbol in the International...

The close-mid central unrounded vowel, or high-mid central unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...

language, a high vowel can be any vowel that is more close than a mid vowel. That is, close-mid vowels, near-close vowels, and close vowels can all be considered...

rounded. Languages may have a mid central rounded vowel (a rounded [ə]), distinct from both the close-mid and open-mid vowels. However, since no language...

divided into two phases. The first phase affected the close vowels /iː uː/ and the close-mid vowels /eː oː/: /eː oː/ were raised to /iː uː/, and /iː uː/...

be variants of close vowels at all. It is rare for languages to contrast a near-close vowel with a close vowel and a close-mid vowel based on height...

of an open-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned one third of the way from an open vowel to a close vowel. Some of the open-mid vowels that have dedicated...

true-mid vowels with close-mid and open-mid vowels without any difference in other parameters, such as backness or roundedness. Its vowel height is mid, which...

Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid front unrounded vowel between close-mid [e] and open-mid [ɛ], but it is normally written ⟨e⟩. If precision...

transcribed with the symbol ⟨ʏ⟩ is near-close near-front rounded vowel. However, acoustic analysis of cardinal vowels as produced by Daniel Jones and John...

protruded front vowels. One of these, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close near-front rounded vowel, with Swedish...

(endolabial) near-close back vowel, although the height of both of these vowels varies from close to close-mid. The fully back variant of the near-close compressed...

front vowels. One Scandinavian language, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close front rounded vowel, with Swedish...

The open-mid back rounded vowel, or low-mid back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...