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Close vowel

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(Pron.) a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth.
See under Close, a.

See also: Close Vowel



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The vowels in the speech of the older age group form a quadrilateral which is characteristic to other Finnic languages, whereas in the case of the younger speakers we can observe a tendency typical to this region: the back vowel /a/ has shifted towards the /o/ (raised), which in its turn has resulted in the shift of the mid-high /o/ towards the close vowel /u/.
Vowels in word-initial syllables in Muhu Estonian/[TEXT NOT ... by Niit, Ellen / Linguistica Uralica
The latter are distinguished by the same features as the close vowels to which they are related (i.
A Shibboleth upon their tongues: early English /r/ revisited by Gasiorowski, Piotr / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
ABSTRACT The paper discusses the early i-/y-spellings which may indicate the narrowing of the long mid close vowel [e: > i:] even before the 15th century, a date generally considered the initial stage of the Great Vowel Shift.
Middle English e-raising: a prelude to the Great Vowel Shift by Welna, Jerzy / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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