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  2. Apples and Bananas - Wikipedia

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    Scottish musicians Cilla Fisher & Artie Trezise included the song on their 1982 album and book The Singing Kettle. [3] Canadian musician Raffi released a version of the song on his album One Light, One Sun (1985). This version only changed the stressed vowels; that is, the vowels in "eat", "apples", and the last two syllables of "bananas".

  3. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

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    Mid central vowel release ̽: Mid-centralized ̝ ˔ Raised ᶿ Voiceless dental fricative release ̩ ̍: Syllabic ̞ ˕ Lowered ˣ: Voiceless velar fricative release ̯ ̑: Non-syllabic ̘ ꭪ Advanced tongue root ʼ: Ejective ˞ Rhoticity ̙ ꭫ Retracted tongue root ͡ ͜ Affricate or double articulation

  4. IPA vowel chart with audio - Wikipedia

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    This chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart. [1] The International Phonetic Alphabet is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

  5. Ubbi dubbi - Wikipedia

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    Ubbi dubbi works by adding -ub-/ ʌ b / before each vowel sound in a syllable [5] (or, as a linguist might put it, "insert [ˈʌb] after each syllable onset"). [6] The stress falls on the "ub" of the syllable that is stressed in the original word.

  6. Close vowel - Wikipedia

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    A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology [1]), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that the tongue is positioned approximately as close as possible to the roof of the mouth as it can be without creating a constriction.

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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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. For example, [ɑ] (the first vowel in father) is at the bottom because the tongue is lowered in this position. [i] (the vowel in "meet") is at the top because the sound is said with the tongue raised to the roof of the mouth.

  8. Navajo phonology - Wikipedia

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    There is a phonetic vowel quality difference between the long high vowel /iː/ (orthographic ii ) and the short high vowel /i/ (orthographic i ): the shorter vowel is significantly lower at than its long counterpart. This phonetic difference is salient to native speakers, who will consider a short vowel at a higher position to be a ...

  9. Chain shift - Wikipedia

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    Most vowels shifted to a higher place of articulation, so that the pronunciation of geese changed from /ge:s/ to /giːs/ and broken from /brɔːken/ to /broːkən/.The high vowels /iː/ and /uː/ became diphthongs (for example, mice changed from /miːs/ ⓘ to /maɪs/ ⓘ), and the low back vowel /aː/ was fronted, causing name to change from /naːmə/ ⓘ to /neːm/ ⓘ.