0 a speech sound produced by humans when the breath flows out through the mouth without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips:
1 a speech sound produced by human beings when the breath flows out through the mouth without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips
The vowels in English are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
The asymmetrical pattern, where high vowels follow nonhigh vowels, is worth additional discussion.
His spellings give clear evidence of the variation in his own speech, with raised, unraised and even lowered equivalents of the short front vowels.
To adopt such an idea would simplify the teaching of the vowels to learners, since you could absorb these so-called diphthongs into the simple system.
They are words that have partial or complete reduplication of consonants and\or vowels and do not contain any consonant clusters.
Target syllables with short vowels represented 42 % of the total number of closed target syllables.
If there was no identifiable release burst, the low amplitude cyclic pattern occurring between the stop's preceding and following vowels was measured.
There were no differences in high-front, high-back, and mid-back vowels.
Superfluous vowels were ignored in this scoring system.
