vowel sound

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vowel sound - a speech sound made with the vocal tract open

vowel

speech sound, phone, sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

ablaut - a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)

diphthong - a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another

schwa, shwa - a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables

stem vowel, thematic vowel - a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection

Translations

vowel sound n → suono vocalico

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