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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. English language - Wikipedia

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    Graphic representation of the Great Vowel Shift showing how the pronunciation of the long vowels gradually shifted with the high vowels i: and u: breaking into diphthongs and the lower vowels each shifting their pronunciation up one level. The next period in the history of English was Early Modern English (1500–1700).

  5. Speech perception - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, some research has revealed that, rather than music affecting our perception of speech, our native speech can affect our perception of music. One example is the tritone paradox. The tritone paradox is where a listener is presented with two computer-generated tones (such as C and F-Sharp) that are half an octave (or a tritone) apart ...

  6. The Adults Are Talking - Wikipedia

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    The Strokes performed "The Adults Are Talking" on Saturday Night Live on October 31, 2020, and a music video for the song, directed by Roman Coppola, was released on December 1. Commercially, the song reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart and No. 31 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart.

  7. Take On Me - Wikipedia

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    The video was also one of the first to be made into a so-called literal music video. [38] The visuals of the video were used as an homage for Paramore's music video for "Caught in the Middle". [39] In 2021, Rolling Stone listed "Take On Me" at number 14 on their list of the 100 greatest music videos. [40]

  8. Functional load - Wikipedia

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    English vowels, for example, have a very high functional load. There are innumerable sets of words distinguished just by their vowels, such as pin, pen, pan, pun, pain, pine. Voicing is similar, as can be seen in pat - bad, few - view. Speakers who do not control these differences make it very difficult for others to understand them.

  9. Vowel-consonant harmony - Wikipedia

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    The pharyngealized alveolars of the Egyptian dialect and a pharyngealized [ɑˤ] are the triggers, with all sounds being pharyngealized if [ɑˤ] is in a word, and the pharyngealized alveolars spreading the harmony in a bidirectional manner. High front vowels and consonants would be the blockers, and include [ɪ], [iː], [eː], and [ʒ]. [2] [3]