This leads to a migration of front
unrounded vowel phonemes in a direction to the right in the vowel space.
Moreover, a change in the vocalic quality is observed (h) which alters a high front
unrounded vowel into a back rounded.
Description IPA Mexbet Voiceless bilabial stop p p Voiceless dental stop t t Voiceless velar stop k k Voiced bilabial stop b b Voiced dental stop d d Voiced velar stop [??] g Voiceless palatal affricate tf tS Voiceless labiodental fricative f f Voiceless alveolar sibilant s s Voiceless velar fricative x x Voiced palatal fricative 3 Z Bilabial nasal m m Palatal nasal n n Alveolar nasal n n Alveolar lateral l l Alveolar trill r r Alveolar flap f r( Close front
unrounded vowel i i Close-mid front
unrounded vowel e e Open front
unrounded vowel a a Close-mid back rounded vowel o o Close back rounded vowel u u TABLE 6: Emotion-specific vowels in the emotional stimuli.
Conclusion: /[??]/ falls in an area between rounded and unrounded and should not be considered an
unrounded vowel. The mid-central vowel which has no rounded-unrounded variants in the IPA vowel chart.
/ CAPITAL I / Realized as a centralized, front, half-close
unrounded vowel in RP e.g.
higher/lower front
unrounded vowel vs lower/higher back rounded vowel).
The pattern that this study established concerning vowel coalescence is that when the basic front high
unrounded vowel /i/ is preceded by the basic low central vowel /a/ [e] is formed and when the basic back high rounded vowel /u/ is preceded by the basic low central vowel /a/ [o] is formed.
However, the immediate predecessor for the Uyghur form yeriq must have been *yariq with an
unrounded vowel in the second syllable.
Also, the genitive suffix cannot possibly have an
unrounded vowel at any time in these examples: mesfurin > mesfurun (7b/2, 11a/9).
However, we are told by Penny that "[c]ompared with [a], the sound [a] is very palatal (i.e., fronted and slightly raised, almost [??)" (1969b: 149), and this description makes it seem highly probable that this is the mid-low central
unrounded vowel [??].
The insistent /e/ of 'les ecoliers' maintains the predominance of the front,
unrounded vowel, taken up by 'courir' and 'cris'.
[i] is a fully close central
unrounded vowel, midway between cardinal vowels 1 [i] and 8 [u].