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Vowel

A vowel is a speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, loudness, and length. They are usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation such as tone, intonation and stress. The nucleus, or "center", of a…

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Definition

Articulation

Acoustics

Prosody and intonation

Monophthongs, diphthongs, triphthongs

Written vowels

Systems

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Vowel

Nodes231
Edges230
Triples283
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008658
Components1

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Vowel

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related to Bibliography · 55
Vowel → Acoustic, Acoustic Phonetics, Acoustical Society, America, An Introduction, Auditory Phonetics, Bibcode, Blackwell, Blackwell ISBN, Boston, Bradford English, Cambridge, Cambridge University ISBN, Castreanum ISBN, Chicago ISBN, Consonants, Course, Current, Elements, English World-Wide
related to Systems · 30
Vowel → Adyghe, Amstetten, Arrernte, Banjarese, Bavarian, Borneo, Chinese, Circassian, Classical Arabic, For, French, If, Inuktitut, IPA, It, Jinhui, Khmer, Malayic, Ndu, Nearly
related to Prosody and intonation · 16
Vowel → Arabic, Finnish, However, Hungarian, In, Japanese, Latin, Lehiste, Length, Loudness, One, Pitch, The, The Mixe, This, We
related to Words consisting of only vowels · 16
Vowel → Bantu, English, Finnic, Finnish, Hawaiian, However, In, In Swahili, In Urdu, Iowa, It, Japanese, Lexical, Most, Polynesian, Vowel-only
related to Phonation · 14
Vowel → Cheyenne, In, In Japanese, Keres, Modal, Mon, Most, Native American, Often, Quebec French, The, Totonac, Voicing, Vowels
related to Written vowels · 13
Vowel → English, However, In, In English, In Modern Welsh, Italian, Latin, Many, Moreover, Romanian, Some, The, There
related to Articulation · 11
Vowel → Acoustics, Daniel Jones, International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA, Peter Ladefoged, See, The, There, These, They, This
related to Roundedness · 11
Vowel → Because, Estonian, French, German, However, In, Roundedness, Turkic, Uralic, Usually, Vietnamese
related to Nasalization · 10
Vowel → An, English, French, In, Nasalization, Nasalized, Polish, Portuguese, The, Vowels
related to Reduced vowels · 8
Vowel → Dialects, English, IPA, Russian, Some, The, The IPA, These

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vowels languages english words syllable used sounds front tongue language one two phonetic back letters also consonants may without vocal

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Vowelis aspeech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract0.90text
Vowelis asound0.90text
Vowelis avowel in which all air escapes through the mouth0.90text
toneinstance ofThey are usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation0.80text
intonationinstance ofThey are usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation0.80text
stressinstance ofThey are usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation0.80text
lengthinstance ofwithout any additional parameters0.80text
roundness or ATRinstance ofwithout any additional parameters0.80text
Modern Mongolianinstance ofand scattered other languages0.80text
'cat'instance ofin the case of a syllable0.80text
the only voiced portion of the syllable is the vowelinstance ofin the case of a syllable0.80text
so the vowel carries the pitch informationinstance ofin the case of a syllable0.80text

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