close vowel

Note that they have nothing to do with open and close vowels.

The two closed vowels become glides when followed by another vowel.

Mongolian also has rounding harmony, which does not apply to close vowels.

In all the documented dialects, all but the two close vowels may be nasalized.

Close vowels are close-mid in closed final syllables of root morphemes.

Of the 17 diphthongs, 14 are formed from any vowel followed by a close vowel.

Vowel length is generally not important: close vowels tend to be longer than open vowels.

The six close vowels identified within the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

Close vowels are pronounced approximately as follows:

It also has the close vowel 'oe'.

Wolof adds diacritic marks to the vowel letters to distinguish between open and closed vowels.

The Kubutz is used only if the prefix is a closed vowel, which is the majority of cases.

Near-close vowels are sometimes described as lax variants of the fully close vowels.

Open vowels are marked by a line under the letter (e ), while a dot below the letter makes it a close vowel (ẹ).

It denoted the sonus medius, a short close vowel sound of a quality between i and u.

In the close vowels, the shortened and lengthened vowels remain distinct from originally short and long vowels.

Palatalization is usually triggered only by Mid vowel and Close vowel (high) front vowels; but counterexamples to this are also found.

The IPA prefers the terms close vowel and open vowel, which respectively describe the jaw as open or closed.

The defining characteristic of a mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned mid-way between an open vowel and a close vowel.

It is somewhat ambiguous whether the final vowel is a phoneme or an allophone of [a] in the environment of other close vowels.

'Please don't say no,' said the producer, who produces nothing if not charm in abundance, especially over three thousand miles when you're hungry for a closed vowel sound.

But just as Dr. Fox began to sound as flaky as last year's granola, the closed vowels of his Midwestern cadence rescued him.

That is, close-mid vowels, near-close vowels, and close vowels can all be considered high vowels.

The defining characteristic of a near-close vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted.

So e.g., the verbal inflection of Eonavian is conditioned by the loss of the distinction between open and closed vowels in Vulgar Latin.