low vowel

The three high vowels and the low vowel can be long.

The quality of the short low vowel is unclear.

In Gothic, the result was a low vowel instead: giba.

Figure 3.6 Percentage low vowel in all other disyllables.

The Boston accent has a highly distinctive system of low vowels, even in speakers who do not drop as described above.

Characteristic phonological features include non-rhoticity and a distinctive set of low vowels.

There is no tense contrast with the low vowel.)

Vertical letters: these were once low vowels.

Complicating this pattern are words borrowed from Spanish that have a velar followed by a low vowel.

Subsequently, the low vowels were modified as follows:

Open vowels are sometimes also called low vowels in reference to the low position of the tongue.

The stød is still present on sonorants and mid and low vowels in the proper environment.

The central mid vowel is rounded, while the low vowel is unrounded.

A low vowel is raised to the high position when it precedes a high and is followed by a word final high.

Figure 3.5 Percentage low vowel in variable monosyllables and prefixed and inflected disyllables.

To mark low vowels:

However, there is also a substantial incidence of a low vowel with a prominent closing glide: approximately [aI].

Generally, "flat" consonants lower vowels in both directions, i.e. the assimilation is both progressive and regressive.

The vertical dimension of the vowel diagram is known as vowel high, which includes high, central (mid), or low vowels.

This change pattern is characterized by the longer and lower vowels moving forward and upward, while the shorter vowels move downward and backward.

There is a tendency for emphatic consonants to cause non-adjacent low vowels to be backed, as well; this is known as emphasis spreading.

The high- and low-frequency vowels described here are not the high vowels and low vowels of linguistics.

A low vowel becomes a mid when it is followed by a word-final high but not directly followed by a high vowel.

Hopi has a number of stop contrasts at the velar place of articulation that occur before the low vowel a. Elsewhere, the contrasts are neutralized.

That is, open-mid vowels, near-open vowels, and open vowels can all be considered low vowels.