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Its vowel height is close-mid, also known as high-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel (a high vowel) and a mid vowel.; Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned back in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
The long vowel /ɔː/ of boat had been raised to /oː/ as a result of the Great Vowel Shift. The diphthong /aw/ found in words such as cause, law, all, salt, psalm, half, change, chamber, dance had become an open back monophthong /ɔː/ or /ɑː/. At this time, the short /ɔ/ in dog was lowered to /ɒ/ There were thus two open back monophthongs:
Walters [11] reports the survival of the distinction in the Welsh English spoken in the Rhondda Valley, with [oː] in the toe words and [ow] in the tow words. Reports of Maine English in the 1970s reported a similar toad-towed distinction among older speakers, but was lost in subsequent generations.
The letter o is the fourth most common letter in the English alphabet. [4] Like the other English vowel letters, it has associated "long" and "short" pronunciations. The "long" o as in boat is actually most often a diphthong / oʊ / (realized dialectically anywhere from [o] to [əʊ]).
Stress is often reinforced by allophonic vowel length, especially when it is lexical. For example, French long vowels are always in stressed syllables. Finnish, a language with two phonemic lengths, indicates the stress by adding allophonic length, which gives four distinctive lengths and five physical lengths: short and long stressed vowels, short and long unstressed vowels, and a half-long ...
Because it's long in many dialects, it's /ɑː/ in the IPA: /brɑː/. Likewise, the aw sound of law is long in many dialects, but, for many of you, different than the bra sound. It's written with an "open" o (just as /ɛ/ looks like an open e, since a small cap o looks just like a regular oː law /lɔː/. (Some of you might not make this ...
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Pronounced / oʊ / when at the end of a word in American English (borough and thorough thus rhyme with burrow and furrow), but reduced to / ə / when followed by another syllable in many dialects (such as in thoroughly). / ʌ p /, / ə p / hiccough Variant spelling of the more common hiccup. / ə f / Greenough