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2. Roundedness - Wikipedia

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   In phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. It is labialization of a vowel. When a rounded vowel is pronounced, the lips form a circular opening, and unrounded vowels are pronounced with the lips relaxed. In most languages, front vowels tend to be unrounded, and back vowels tend

3. Table of vowels - Wikipedia

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   name height backness roundness IPA number IPA text IPA image Entity X-SAMPA Sound sample Close front unrounded vowel: close: front: unrounded: 301: i i i Sound sample

4. Vowel diagram - Wikipedia

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   In the vowel diagram, convenient reference points are provided for specifying tongue position. The position of the highest point of the arch of the tongue is considered to be the point of articulation of the vowel. The vertical dimension of the vowel diagram is known as vowel height, which includes high, central (mid), or low vowels.

5. Mid central vowel - Wikipedia

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   Afrikaans contrasts unrounded and rounded mid central vowels; the latter is usually transcribed with œ . The contrast is not very stable, and many speakers use an unrounded vowel in both cases. [3] Danish [4] and Luxembourgish [5] have a mid central vowel that is variably rounded. In other languages, the change in rounding is accompanied with ...

6. IPA vowel chart with audio - Wikipedia

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   Within the chart “close”, “open”, “mid”, “front”, “central”, and “back” refer to the placement of the sound within the mouth. [3] At points where two sounds share an intersection, the left is unrounded, and the right is rounded which refers to the shape of the lips while making the sound. [4]

7. Relative articulation - Wikipedia

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   A centralized vowel is a vowel that is more central than some point of reference, or that has undergone a shift in this direction. The diacritic for this in the International Phonetic Alphabet is the diaeresis, U+0308 ̈ COMBINING DIAERESIS. For example, to transcribe rounded and unrounded near-close central vowels, the symbols [ɪ̈, ʊ̈] may ...