| Some readers do elocution lessons to get rid of troublesome sibilants or worrisome vowels. |
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| The problem with this is that these languages display palatals in the vicinity of both front and back vowels, and even before other consonants. |
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| That is, vowels are created by the first few broad peaks on the amplitude envelope imposed on the overtone spectrum by vocal-tract resonances. |
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| I have never, for instance, heard a speaker of English condemn the nasal vowels or the dropped consonants of the French language. |
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| In the former, 12 vowels are distinguished, six oral vowels and six nasal vowels. |
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| In Chinese pronunciation, basic vowels can form vowel combinations with each other or with a nasal consonant. |
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| Peabody's accent was high and aloof, crisp on the vowels and nasally through the consonants. |
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| As in Hebrew, the use of vowels in writing Aramaic and Arabic is a relatively late development. |
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| Specialists tend to just assume that this is because word-final unaccented vowels tend to fall away. |
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| She spoke without any apparent accent, in a round voice filled with soft vowels and smooth consonants. |
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| In French, Italian, and Scottish English long vowels occur in a narrow range of positions and in general do not affect meaning. |
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| The big problem with long vowels is that there is more than one way to spell the same sound. |
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| After learning a map of vowels based on place and manner of articulation, K. C. attached letters to her map. |
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| Leaving Rome and heading south or east, you find a tendency of shortening non-stressed vowels and reducing them to schwas. |
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| The other characteristic feature, which Frisian has carried on a step farther than English, is the assibilation of velars before front vowels. |
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| However, diphthongs and macrons are seldom used in modern Romanji to differentiate the vowels with multiple sounds. |
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| Back vowels have their name because the sound resonates at the back of the mouth. |
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| It is comprised of about twice as many consonants and vowels as English and has eight tones. |
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| Come on folks, don't you know how to pronounce vowels with umlauts over them? |
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| In Greek and Latin, they are typically joined by thematic vowels, such as the i of Latin agricultura, the o of Greek biographia. |
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| Rachel's vowels can make her sound gushy, but, in truth, she's just enthusiastic. |
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| In the following presentation both the 'open' and the 'close' pronunciation of each of the five vowels is illustrated. |
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| Fewer spoken words start with vowels, which provide more subtle acoustic cues than the more explosive consonant sounds. |
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| The vowels of the stressed syllables in such words as father and fodder are generally identical. |
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| It has seven vowels, it has no perfect tenses, it is chock-a-block with suffixes and its syntax is baroque. |
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| In modern Paraguayan orthography, the nasal vowels are represented with the nasal tilde over the oral version of the vowel. |
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| Callum spoke posh English, his accent all mellifluous vowels and dentilingual consonants. |
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| It's all very incongruous coming from the mouth of a titled man whose toffee vowels are drawn out like a penny chew. |
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| Unlike the English alphabet of 26 letters, the Tlingit language has at least 32 consonants and eight vowels. |
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| Now they're saddled with Slavonic tongue-twisters with more consonants and fewer vowels than can possibly be good for them. |
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| The privative and benefactive suffixes should have vowels written with underdots. |
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| Palatalized and plain consonants do not contrast in words with non-pharyngeal vowels. |
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| There are other vowel sounds in our language besides the short and long vowels. |
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| Many local accents are marked by a rhythm that tends to lengthen stressed vowels and to reduce or eliminate unstressed short vowels. |
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| Next came the four trilled vowels, and unlike the wingless race he resembled, the ava mastered them with little effort. |
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| Other topics for the group include the correct pronunciation of Maori vowels and the distinction between moko and other tattoos. |
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| Articulation in singing is produced by such techniques as portamento or the taking of breaths, and by the treatment of vowels and consonants. |
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| What specialists like Liberman are schooled in, is the rules for sound-shifts in vowels and consonants in any language across the centuries. |
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| Obviously, you haven't heard me brutalize the combinations of consonants and vowels that sound so exquisite when spoken by a Chinese. |
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| I love the garrulous, argumentative people, with their speech, which boasts impressively rounded vowels. |
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| The Third Part relates to grammar, syntax, orthography, vowels and consonants. |
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| Without vowels, the ancients depended in part on contextual clues in order to read. |
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| This means his name contains 8 vowels and 6 consonants so the question is so valid. |
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| After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences. |
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| The children were asked to match speech sounds to written consonants and vowels, and they practiced related skills. |
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| The accumulated differences in the vowels, consonants, and syllable lengths gives dramatic speech a totally different pace. |
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| When his operas are sung in any other language, the shift in vowels, consonants, and rhythms changes the character of the music. |
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| Strident vowels are fairly common in Khoisan languages, where they contrast with simple pharyngealized vowels. |
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| Let's imagine a language that adds glottal stops to beginnings of words if they start with vowels, and deletes final vowels. |
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| His voice is also surprisingly cultured, far more so in many ways than Jagger's flattened vowels. |
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| The language recodes the vowels and consonants of individual Spanish words into whistles. |
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| In comparison, the long vowels, which can occur in open syllables, show a higher degree of phonological autonomy. |
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| In Swahili, which is a Bantu language, vowels are pronounced as they are in Spanish or Italian. |
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| Such emphasis on the quality of the open vowels, achieved by years of assiduous practice, was also at the heart of Gregorian chant. |
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| Vitruvius's remarks show a sophisticated interest in the different acoustic behaviours of consonants and vowels. |
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| Vowels so marked are described as long, and unmarked vowels are short, a distinction known as vowel length. |
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| Expiration of air through vibrating vocal cords, used in the production of vowels and voiced consonants. |
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| The system was a spoken one in the sense that consonants and vowels which are not vocalised have no numerical value. |
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| The Pali alphabet used for written Burmese is made up of eight vowels, three diphthongs, 32 consonants, and several tones. |
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| After the gentle, sensuous vowels of Latin-American, this language sounds harsh, cruel, authoritarian. |
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| Its syllables roll out with a fine cadence, its vowels and consonants harmonize happily. |
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| Strictly speaking, not even the vowels are phonologically autonomous in most accents of English. |
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| North Korea inherited this modern form of Korean vernacular script consisting of nineteen consonants and twenty-one vowels. |
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| The first complete alphabet, comprising symbols representing all the vowels and consonants of a language, was devised by the ancient Greeks. |
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| Slovak, like other Slavic languages, has diacritical marks that govern the pronunciation of both consonants and vowels. |
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| For the study of vowels and consonants, the waveform is presented as a spectrogram, on which sounds appear as recognizable visual patterns. |
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| Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants, a bright but increasingly fragile idyll asking to be shattered. |
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| But at normal conversational speed its ghastly sequence of four diphthongized long vowels sounds something like ah-ee-yay-ee-yee-yay-ee. |
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| Voiced obstruents can stand only before vowels, sonorants and voiced obstruents in the same word. |
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| He has also learned the Greek alphabet, capital and lowercase, and has begun to make the distinction between consonants and vowels. |
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| Keep monthly writing samples so you can observe how students gradually add the correct vowels and consonants. |
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| Year after year, his explanations of connecting vowels and genitives of nouns and declinable adjectives fell on deaf ears. |
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| While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the vowel cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter. |
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| Still the dominant phonetic presence is of light vowels and soft consonants. |
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| Front and central vowels and back low vowels are normally pronounced with the lips unrounded. |
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| Also, the nasal cavity can be closed thus preventing vowels from being nasalised and thus increasing their comprehensibility. |
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| The ability to speak, to form sentences, to conjugate vowels had totally slipped from Janet's mind. |
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| It is that work ethic, more than the cut-glass vowels, that links Silvas with Helen Joynson-Hicks and Beulah. |
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| A couple of kids chimed in and their voices were lost in a huge mumble of slurred vowels and consonances in my scrambled brain. |
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| Despite the exclamation mark, he talks in the flat, imperturbable vowels of Sussex, his voice rising not so much in volume as in exasperation. |
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| Then they learned to read by pronouncing nonsense syllables formed by combining consonants with vowels, such as ba-he-bi. |
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| The greatest degree of pharyngealisation is found in the strident vowels of the Khoisan languages. |
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| He appears to have identified certain vowels and consonants that do not exist in French and used them repeatedly throughout the two songs. |
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| The diphthongs ayyy and eeee turn up again and again, long vowels lengthened by slow consonants around them. |
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| Each syllable is written as a combination of consonants and vowels, plus the tone mark. |
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| Allowing for the omission of vowels and the unknown letter, surely this was Rameses. |
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| You will sound fairly good if your teacher's modeling elicits a free sound that is well-focused on pure vowels. |
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| A latter-day dandy, he was renowned as much for his cut-glass vowels as for his Savile Row suits, bespoke shirts and handmade brogues. |
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| The most obvious common phonetic feature may be the linguistically distinctive quantity in both vowels and consonants. |
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| Stressed syllables retain full vowel quality, whereas unstressed syllables may have weak vowels. |
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| The original version was in Kufic script and contained no vowels or distinguishing, diacritical points. |
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| Like U.S. Spanish, early Spanish exhibited a strong tendency to form diphthongs from contiguous vowels. |
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| His beautifully enunciated vowels and curmudgeonly misogyny were so accurately rendered that he took over the stage whenever he appeared. |
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| English vowels may be partially nasalized when followed by a nasal consonant. |
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| Add vowels to create words, then delete this heptad of words. |
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| The preference for open syllables which end in vowels rather than consonants may, however, derive from universal developmental tendencies as well as from substratum influence. |
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| Hollow N representing nasal sound of vowels, as in French Vin. |
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| Modern English is essentially Middle English with slurred vowels. |
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| The back of the tongue lies opposite the soft palate or velum when the tongue is in a state of rest, and sounds made with the back include velar consonants and back vowels. |
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| The vowels of the Fin, Mongol and Manchu are probably more modern and are consistent with an extension of the Ugrian dialect in which they originated. |
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| The Silbo, which is thought to have been brought to the island by Berbers from North Africa, condenses Spanish into two vowels and four consonants. |
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| There may certainly be independent grounds for categorizing segments as vowels or consonants, in terms of their inherent sonority and phonological dependence, for example. |
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| Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms. |
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| Mr. Luxenberg explains these copies are written without vowels and diacritical dots that modern Arabic uses to make it clear what letter is intended. |
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| Babies are also subjected to exaggerated pronunciation of vowels. |
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| Most of the vowels and consonants that do not occur at the ends of words have pronunciations similar to those of western European languages, but there are some differences. |
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| It turned out their previous teacher had been a Miss Barwell from the Home Counties, a former elocution mistress who prided herself on her cut-glass vowels. |
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| Write this sentence down, then remove all vowels and repeating letters. |
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| To describe the noise, I've tried every combination of vowels and aitches. |
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| With its multitude of vowels and complex systems of inflections and enclitics, Navajo is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn. |
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| Accented and umlauted vowels, and diacritical marks on consonants must be avoided, because they act as roadblocks and break the speed of a typist. |
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| The Amharic alphabet is made up of 33 letters and has seven vowels. |
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| This alphabet was small, consisting of 14 consonants, and 3 vowels. |
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| She speaks very fast, with a Spanish accent that rounds her vowels. |
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| In view of the time required to move to more peripheral vowel positions, tense vowels tend to be peripheral and lax vowels closer to schwa, the neutral or central vowel. |
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| Instead, the list of names with front vowels surely differed from the list of names with back vowels in many other ways, phonetically and otherwise. |
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| I try enunciating clearly, ironing out the harshness of my vowels. |
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| On the letter-sound test, most children began tutoring knowing single consonant sounds, but had relatively little knowledge of sounds for vowels or letter patterns. |
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| Three of its vowels are each represented by a letter of the alphabet. |
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| She has one long leg in the Top 40 charts and another in the land of twangy vowels. |
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| Finnish is characterized by the use of many vowels and few consonants. |
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| He could not manage the soft tone of a human voice or juggle the stress on certain vowels and words, and on those he could it always came out angered sounding. |
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| It was only later that these ambiguities were in large measure resolved by the creation of a system of pointing the consonantal text to represent the missing vowels. |
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| How many pure, uncombined, vowels are there in General American speech? |
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| The formation of diphthongs from contiguous vowels represents a common prohibition in languages against starting a syllable with a vowel, as opposed to a consonant. |
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| He investigated how vowels and consonants alternated in the opening chapters of the long story and the poem and discovered a fascinating regularity. |
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| One minute you're in a sharp, spluttering, stony riffle, and then you're in a swift, frictionless, swirling run, or in a deep slow pool of long vowels and slow consonants. |
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| When stressed, the short vowels only occur in closed syllables. |
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| Because vowels are not generally written, digraphs are rare in abjads like Arabic. |
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| Long vowels are written by adding the kana for that vowel, in effect doubling it. |
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| As was the case in Greek, Korean has vowels descended from diphthongs that are still written with two letters. |
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| The earliest alphabetic writing had no capitalization, no spaces, no vowels and few punctuation marks. |
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| Like all Northern accents, Mancunians have no distinction between the STRUT and FOOT vowels or the TRAP and BATH vowels. |
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| Accounts of basilectal Jamaican Patois postulate around 21 phonemic consonants and between 9 and 16 vowels. |
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| If she softened her natural vowels a fraction in keeping with her role as a Protestant lady, she did not put on dog or act in a snobbish manner. |
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| The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels. |
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| It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels. |
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| It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants. |
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| Liz's vowels have sat in a few places and can still sound like a bit of a Tiki tour in a single sentence. |
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| I read through the dictionary five times to extract an extensive lexicon of univocal words containing only one of the five vowels. |
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| The objective of these corpora was to check whether vowels other than nasal vowels systematically unpack in L1s that do not allow them. |
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| Capital letters express a retroflex articulation which in Kalasha occurs not only in consonants but also in vowels. |
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| Speech recognition is easier for languages like English and others that use the Roman alphabet because they include more written vowels. |
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| In normal speakers, English vowels and oral sonorants are produced primarily with oral resonance and little if any nasal resonance. |
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| The former nasal squeakiness and strangulated vowels of the upper classes now only emerge when he gets excited. |
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| In the experiment, the listeners were asked to categorise the vowels samples they heard and rate the sample's prototypicality and nasality. |
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| Note that nasalized vowels are phonemic in KT, although they are always long. |
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| Vowels in different languages and special vowels such as nasal, diphthongs and triphthongs, glides, consonants, legato singing are also reviewed. |
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| Josh had excellent comprehension, and he worked on learning the consonants, vowels, digraphs, blends, and rules of syllabication. |
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| The weakening of obstruents in sonorous environments, especially between vowels, is a very common phenomenon in languages all over the world. |
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| There is a tendency, though, for such vowels to become reduced over time, especially in common words. |
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| The local accent is similar to the traditional dialect of Hampshire, featuring the dropping of some consonants and an emphasis on longer vowels. |
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| Mid and open vowels were raised, and close vowels were broken into diphthongs. |
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| Lenis consonants are partly voiced at the beginning and end of utterances, and fully voiced between vowels. |
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| The pronunciation of vowels varies a great deal between dialects and is one of the most detectable aspects of a speaker's accent. |
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| These four vowels are only distinguished in RP, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. |
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| Macrons are used to indicate long vowels, where usually no distinction was made between long and short vowels in the originals. |
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| In Portuguese, vowels after the stressed syllable can be pronounced with murmur. |
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| Australian English also has a contrast between long and short vowels, not found in most other varieties. |
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| Long vowels in Classical Latin were pronounced with a different quality from short vowels and also were longer. |
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| Old Latin had more diphthongs, but most of them changed into long vowels in Classical Latin. |
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| Although some vowels are strongly nasal, instances of distinctive nasality are rare. |
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| Learners employing the vowels must not use either the inverted caret v or the dot, except as vowels. |
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| The following is a summary of the major sound changes affecting vowels in chronological order. |
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| His system of alliterative verse is based on accent, alliteration, the quantity of vowels, and patterns of syllabic accentuation. |
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| It is quite possible that the earlier Abenakis may have only partially medialized their consonants after vowels. |
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| In Old French, the nasal vowels were not separate phonemes, but occurred as allophones of the oral vowels before a nasal consonant. |
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| In addition to diphthongs, Old French had many instances of hiatus between adjacent vowels, due to loss of an intervening consonant. |
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| In the development of French, no fewer than five vowels diphthongized in stressed, open syllables. |
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| Length confusions seem to have begun in unstressed vowels, but they were soon generalized. |
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| This vowel length was eventually lost by around AD 1700, but the former long vowels are still marked with a circumflex. |
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| In Portugal, vowels before a nasal consonant have become denasalized, but in Brazil they remain heavily nasalized. |
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| Devanagari consists of 11 vowels and 33 consonants and is written from left to right. |
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| The phonemic inventory of standard Bengali consists of 29 consonants and 7 vowels, including 6 nasalized vowels. |
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| Bengali is known for its wide variety of diphthongs, combinations of vowels occurring within the same syllable. |
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| It uses diacritics to map the much larger set of Brahmic consonants and vowels to the Latin script. |
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| The fada serves to lengthen the sound of the vowels and in some cases also changes their quality. |
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| Nasal and oral vowels probably merged around the 11th century in most of Old East Norse. |
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| Long vowels were sometimes marked with acutes, but also sometimes left unmarked or geminated. |
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| Ablaut patterns are groups of vowels which are swapped, or ablauted, in the nucleus of a word. |
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| Umlaut or mutation is an assimilatory process acting on vowels preceding a vowel or semivowel of a different vowel backness. |
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| In inflections, this manifested as the dropping of the inflectional vowels. |
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| Also, when followed by some vowels the Germanic k developed into a ch sound. |
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| The North Frisian dialects differ from modern Standard German by a more diverse system of vowels and consonants. |
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| It was created by modifying the Phoenician alphabet, with the innovation of adopting certain letters to represent the vowels. |
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| That is, phonetically they are consonants, but phonemically they behave as vowels. |
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| Although English contrasts six heights in its vowels, they are interdependent with differences in backness, and many are parts of diphthongs. |
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| Some languages have vertical vowel systems in which at least at a phonemic level, only height is used to distinguish vowels. |
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| Because lip rounding is easily visible, vowels may be commonly identified as rounded based on the articulation of the lips. |
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| Acoustically, rounded vowels are identified chiefly by a decrease in F2, although F1 is also slightly decreased. |
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| In most languages, roundedness is a reinforcing feature of mid to high back vowels rather than a distinctive feature. |
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| Thus, the placement of unrounded vowels to the left of rounded vowels on the IPA vowel chart is reflective of their position in formant space. |
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| In nasal vowels, the velum is lowered, and some air travels through the nasal cavity as well as the mouth. |
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| Most languages have only voiced vowels, but several Native American languages, such as Cheyenne and Totonac, contrast voiced and devoiced vowels. |
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| In Japanese and in Quebec French, vowels that are between voiceless consonants are often devoiced. |
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| Pharyngealized vowels occur in some languages like Sedang and the Tungusic languages. |
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| Tenseness is used to describe the opposition of tense vowels as in leap, suit vs. |
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| Therefore, they are also known as checked vowels, whereas the tense vowels are called free vowels since they can occur in any kind of syllable. |
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| Back vowels have low F2 frequencies, while front vowels have high F2 frequencies. |
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| Longer vowels are sometimes claimed, but these are always divided between two syllables. |
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| In writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, the letters A, E, I, O, U, Y, W and sometimes others can all be used to represent vowels. |
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| The importance of vowels in distinguishing one word from another varies from language to language. |
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| It is not straightforward to say which language has the most vowels, since that depends on how they are counted. |
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| However, none of them are pronounced alone without vowels, so they are not phonological words. |
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| In Kazakh and certain other Turkic languages, words without vowel sounds may occur due to reduction of weak vowels. |
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| Among careful speakers, however, the original vowel may be preserved, and the vowels are always preserved in the orthography. |
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| It is not uncommon for short grammatical words to consist of only vowels, such as a and I in English. |
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| All spoken languages have phonemes of at least two different categories, vowels and consonants, that can be combined to form syllables. |
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| As well as segments such as consonants and vowels, some languages also use sound in other ways to convey meaning. |
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| Moreover, they were not very frequent and occurred only intervocally almost exclusively after short vowels. |
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| The distribution of short vowels in unstressed syllables is a little complicated. |
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| The distribution of short vowels in unstressed syllables, other than when absolutely final, was quite restricted. |
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| The relative backness of the two vowels was opposite in the two areas that distinguished them. |
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| The general practice was to write long vowels with a single letter in an open syllable and with two letters in a closed syllable. |
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| In classes 6 and 7, there was no distinction between the two different vowels of the past tense. |
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| Old High German had five phonemic long vowels and six phonemic short vowels. |
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| Most Swiss German dialects have rounded front vowels, unlike other High German dialects. |
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| Some dialects have productive lenition of voiceless consonants into their voiced counterparts between vowels. |
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| Others have contracted syllable sequences, causing accents to shift or vowels to become long. |
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| These vowels are restricted in their occurrence according to vowel harmony. |
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| It has more initial consonants but fewer vowels, final consonants and tones than southern varieties. |
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| Through this vowel shift, all Middle English long vowels changed their pronunciation. |
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| The vowels occurred in the words bite, meet, meat, mate, boat, boot and out. |
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| After around 1300, the long vowels of Middle English began changing in pronunciation. |
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| In Northern England, the long back vowels remained unaffected because the long mid back vowel had undergone an earlier shift. |
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| Using an Edison phonograph, Ludimar Hermann investigated the spectral properties of vowels and consonants. |
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| However, verbs with vowels that did not fit in the existing pattern of alternation retained their reduplication. |
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| Swedish has a similar situation to that of Norwegian, but the dental is retained in the spelling, even between vowels. |
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| Palatalization involves change in the place or manner of articulation of consonants, or the fronting or raising of vowels. |
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| The palatalized consonants also factor in how unstressed vowels are reduced. |
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| The differences occurred mostly in the front vowels, and particularly the diphthongs. |
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| As with most other Germanic languages, Faroese has a large number of vowels, with 26 in total. |
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| This became necessary when pronunciation simplified, merging the two long vowels eta and omega to short. |
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| The Great Vowel Shift was a chain shift affecting all of the long vowels of Middle English. |
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| During the Great Vowel Shift all of the long vowels of Middle English, which correspond to tense vowels in Modern English, shifted pronunciation. |
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| In Quebec French, long vowels are generally diphthongized in the last syllable. |
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| Diphthongs often form when separate vowels are run together in rapid speech during a conversation. |
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| In languages with phonemically short and long vowels, diphthongs typically behave like long vowels, and are pronounced with a similar length. |
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| In some languages, such as Old English, these behave like short and long vowels, occupying one and two morae, respectively. |
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| In some languages, diphthongs are single phonemes, while in others they are analyzed as sequences of two vowels, or of a vowel and a semivowel. |
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| In Quebec French, long vowels are generally diphthongized in informal speech when stressed. |
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| Additionally, in casual speech, adjacent heterosyllabic vowels may combine into diphthongs and triphthongs or even sequences of them. |
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| Khmer language has rich vocalics with an extra distinction of long and short register to the vowels and diphthongs. |
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| Accents typically differ in quality of the voice, pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants, stress, and prosody. |
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| Esperanto has 23 consonants, five vowels, and two semivowels that combine with the vowels to form six diphthongs. |
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| Esperanto has the five vowels found in such languages as Spanish, Swahili, Modern Hebrew, and Modern Greek. |
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| Since there are only five vowels, a good deal of variation in pronunciation is tolerated. |
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| The number of phonemically distinct vowels can be as low as two, as in Ubykh and Arrernte. |
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| Because of phonological process affecting vowel length, short vowels in one context can be longer than long vowels in another context. |
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| In addition to such length distinctions, unstressed vowels are both shorter and more centralised than stressed ones. |
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| A minor revision took place in 1993 with the addition of four letters for mid central vowels and the removal of letters for voiceless implosives. |
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| Vowels pronounced with the tongue lowered are at the bottom, and vowels pronounced with the tongue raised are at the top. |
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| All obstruents are consonants, but sonorants include both vowels and consonants. |
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| Sonorants are sounds such as vowels and nasals that are voiced in most of the world's languages. |
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| The voiced fricatives can readily be felt to have voicing throughout the duration of the phone especially when they occur between vowels. |
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| Aspirated consonants are not always followed by vowels or other voiced sounds. |
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| This is true because, in many dialects, the words in all or most of the sets are pronounced with similar or identical stressed vowels. |
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| Some varieties of English make distinctions in stressed vowels that are not captured by the 24 lexical sets. |
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| In some languages, vowel length is sometimes better analyzed as a sequence of two identical vowels. |
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| Morphological treatment of diphthongs is essentially similar to long vowels. |
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| In Latin and Hungarian, long vowels are analyzed as separate phonemes from short vowels, which doubles the number of vowel phonemes. |
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| In addition, the vowels of Received Pronunciation are commonly divided into short and long, as obvious from their transcription. |
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| Though, like the nucleus of rhotic English church, there is debate over whether these nuclei are consonants or vowels. |
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| That is, the jaw, which to a large extent controls vowel height, tends to be relaxed when pronouncing reduced vowels. |
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| There are several ways to distinguish full and reduced vowels in transcription. |
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| In Classical Latin, stress changed position, so in some cases reduced vowels became stressed. |
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| In particular, the long vowels sometimes arose from short vowels, via Middle English open syllable lengthening or other processes. |
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| This affects the final vowels of words such as happy, city, hurry, taxi, movie, Charlie, coffee, money, Chelsea. |
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| These are known as reduced vowels, and tend to be characterized by such features as shortness, laxness and central position. |
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| Full vowels can often be found in unstressed syllables in compound words, as in bedsheet, moonlit, tentpeg, snowman, and kettledrum. |
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| Alternatively, these reduced vowels can be analyzed as instances of the same phonemes as full vowels. |
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| When the stress pattern of words changes, the vowels in certain syllables may switch between full and reduced. |
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| The short vowels, consisting only of monophthongs, correspond to the RP lax vowels. |
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| The following charts list the vowels typical of each Irish English dialect as well as the several distinctive consonants of Irish English. |
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| The two main phonological indicators of South African English are the behaviour of the vowels in kit and bath. |
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| For more detail about the changes in the first millennium AD, see the section on the development of Old English vowels. |
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| For a summary of the various developments in Old and Middle English that led to these vowels, see English historical vowel correspondences. |
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| It has affected most varieties of contemporary English, which have distinct vowels in pairs such as cat, cart. |
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| In German, an abrupt glottalized onset to phonation is frequent in front of word-initial vowels. |
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| A point of interest is that the majority of wordfinal vowels in Maanyan are glottalized. |
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| Yucatec Maya is glottalized in some consonants, tonal in certain vowels, and uses glottal stops. |
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| First tone vowels are neither pharyngealized, nor accompanied by a glottal stop. |
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| The colon was his way of marking long vowels, an idea he probably borrowed from the International Phonetic Alphabet. |
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| There are patterned vowel losses in Elamitic while Dravidian stem vowels tend to be very stable. |
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| Le queor espire e enlumine E fait amer la lei divine.but also over single vowels both blocked and free. |
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| The addition of the morpheme may also cause the stress to shift, resulting in the reduction of vowels in pretonic syllables. |
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| The word features all five major vowels, almost in order, and remains an isogram with a sixth vowel in ambidextrously. |
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| Lower frequency formants typically represent vowels and higher frequency formants typically represent consonants. |
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| Their styles proposed diacritical marks for long vowels and velarised consonants although most scholars found them impractical, except for the hamza and the ayn. |
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| A more systematic example is that of abjads like the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets, in which the short vowels are normally left unwritten and must be inferred by the reader. |
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| At that time I hypothesized that Old Chinese had had a distinction between long and short vowels and that in the transition to Middle Chinese long vowels had diphthongized. |
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| Long and overlong mid-high vowels can either be diphthongized or raised. |
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| The use of the letters I and V for both consonants and vowels proved inconvenient as the Latin alphabet was adapted to Germanic and Romance languages. |
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| Diacritics were not regularly used, but they did occur sometimes, the commonest being the apex used to mark long vowels, which had previously sometimes been written double. |
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| Classical Latin distinguished between long and short vowels. |
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| The examples in are intended to illustrate that long and short primary vowels contrast in KT in word-final position, both in disyllables and in monosyllables. |
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| The standardized orthography marks the long vowels with an acute accent. |
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| The phonology of the low back vowels of the English language has undergone changes both overall and with regional variations, through Old and Middle English to the present. |
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| Most standard varieties are affected by the Great Vowel Shift, which changed the pronunciation of long vowels, but a few dialects have slightly different results. |
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| The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length. |
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