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  2. Vowel - Wikipedia

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    There are two complementary definitions of vowel, one phonetic and the other phonological.. In the phonetic definition, a vowel is a sound, such as the English "ah" / ɑː / or "oh" / oʊ /, produced with an open vocal tract; it is median (the air escapes along the middle of the tongue), oral (at least some of the airflow must escape through the mouth), frictionless and continuant. [4]

  3. Phonological rule - Wikipedia

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    The arrow represents that the sound on the left changes to have the features on the right. The sound that /t/ and /d/ (in this example) change to, or the individual features that change. The slash is a shorthand notation for "in the environment where...". [5] It means that the notation to the right describes where the phonological rule is applied.

  4. R-colored vowel - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, at the Kiel Convention, the hook of ɚ and ɝ was adopted as a diacritic placed on the right side of the vowel symbol for r-colored vowels, e.g. ɛ˞ o˞ ɔ˞ . [10] Following the convention of alternating ɜ and ə for non-rhotic accents, ɝ and ɚ signify stressed and unstressed, respectively, rather than a difference in phonetic ...

  5. Vocal pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    Vocal pedagogy is the study of the art and science of voice instruction. It is used in the teaching of singing and assists in defining what singing is, how singing works, and how singing technique is accomplished.

  6. Vocal register - Wikipedia

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    A vocal register is a range of tones in the human voice produced by a particular vibratory pattern of the vocal folds.These registers include modal voice (or normal voice), vocal fry, falsetto, and the whistle register.

  7. Swedish phonology - Wikipedia

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    In accent 2 words, this results in two high tones within the word (e.g. máttá), hence the term "two-peaked" for this dialect. In southern Swedish, a "one-peaked" dialect, accent 1 is realized as a high tone at the beginning of the stressed syllable ( físken ) and accent 2, by a low tone ( màtta ). [ 74 ]

  8. Singing - Wikipedia

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    In its physical aspect, singing has a well-defined technique that depends on the use of the lungs, which act as an air supply or bellows; on the larynx, which acts as a reed or vibrator; on the chest, head cavities and the skeleton, which have the function of an amplifier, as the tube in a wind instrument; and on the tongue, which together with the palate, teeth, and lips articulate and impose ...

  9. Fountas and Pinnell reading levels - Wikipedia

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    A meta-analysis of 21 studies found that the F&P Text Level Gradient system did not lead to effective reading fluency interventions. [ 8 ] Matthew Burns, a reading researcher at the University of Florida, has studied assessments within the F&P Text Level Gradient system and found that they result in 54% total accuracy and correctly identify low ...