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vowel

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  1. vowel
    a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
  2. diphthong
    a sound that glides between two vowels in a single syllable
  3. consonant
    a speech sound that is not a vowel
  4. speech sound
    (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
  5. phoneme
    a distinct speech sound in a particular language
  6. philology
    the humanistic study of language and literature
  7. thematic vowel
    a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection
  8. ablaut
    a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)
  9. schwa
    a neutral middle vowel that occurs in unstressed syllables
  10. shwa
    a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
  11. stem vowel
    a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection
Created on 一月 9, 2011 (updated 一月 9, 2011)

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