Noun
- In phonetics, a sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
- A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o and u, and sometimes y.
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...In all languages, vowels form the nucleus or peak of syllables, whereas consonants form the onset and (in languages which have them) coda. However, some languages also allow other sounds to form the nucleus of a syllable, such as the syllabic l in the English word table (the stroke under the l indicates that it is syllabic; the dot separates syllables), or the r in Serbian vrt "garden". Read full entry
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- 1.Vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- A vowel is also understood to be syllabic: an equivalent open but non-syllabic ... Vowel height is named for the vertical position of the tongue relative to either ...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V
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- 2.vowel: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
- vowel n. A speech sound, such as (ē) or (ĭ), created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity, usually forming
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Does anyone have a great way Hi, I am learning Turkish and
my professor says I need to
work on knowing vowel harmony
without looking at my notes.
Does anyone know of a mnemonic
device or something to help me
remember which vowels are
back, front, high, low,
rounded, and unrounded?
Any help would be appreciated.
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It's tough isn't it?! The way I remember is to use certain words or sentences as examples - aşkım televizyon seviyor (My Love loves television) This teaches you that after a, it's ı (aşkım) After e, it's i (televizyon, seviyor) Make up a few sentences like this, but before you memorise them make sure that you check with your professor that none of the words you've chosen are of foreign origin - because a lot of foreign words don't follow vowel harmony. That's why you get words like mavi and kitap, which don't follow normal Turkish vowel harmony. If you're really imaginitive, you might manage to think of one sentence with all the right vowels in - but it might be easier to think of a few more simple ones. |
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Is the letter H a vowel when I know that when you write
things like hospital in french
it is l'hospital. But, i was
wondering if you would say bel
hospital or beau hospital.
Because i dont konw if the h
is considered a vowel. Please
help?
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we call it a mute consonant but not all the times, some the "h" is for nothing. ex: un hopital, we pronounce un nopital but for the animal un hibou we do not say un nibou but un ibou, however most of the words starting with a H are like hopital, another example with the word bean: un haricot, we don't say un naricot but un aricot (no connection), also des haricots, we do not say des zaricots, but des aricots. |
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What do you call it when you Typically present in accents
such as American South.
When there isn't a vowel
inbetween a group of
consonants, but with your
accent, when you speak you
insert it there.
For example, if a foreign
speaker were trying to read
English and for "facts" said
"fact-uhs." What is this
insertion of a vowel called?
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Anaptyxis a type of epenthesis involving insertion of a vowel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E penthesis |
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