Close-mid vowel
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Aclose-mid vowel(alsomid-close vowel,high-mid vowel,mid-high vowelorhalf-close vowel) is any in a class ofvowelsound used in some spokenlanguages.The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned one third of the way from aclose vowelto anopen vowel.[1]
Partial list
[edit]The close-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in theInternational Phonetic Alphabetare:
- close-mid front unrounded vowel[e]
- close-mid front rounded vowel[ø]
- close-mid central unrounded vowel[ɘ](older publications may use ⟨ë⟩)
- close-mid central rounded vowel[ɵ](older publications may use ⟨ö⟩)
- close-mid back unrounded vowel[ɤ]
- close-mid back rounded vowel[o]
Other close-mid vowels can be indicated with diacritics ofrelative articulationapplied to letters for neighboring vowels.
References
[edit]- ^Tamzida, Aleeya; Siddiqui, Sharmin (2011)."A synchronic comparison between the vowel phonemes of Bengali & English phonology and its classroom applicability".Stamford Journal of English.6:285–314.doi:10.3329/sje.v6i0.13919.ISSN2408-8838.
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