lax vowel
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflaxandvowel
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lax
adjective
uk/læks/us/læks/
without much care, attention, ...
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vowel
noun[C]
uk/vaʊəl/us/vaʊəl/
a speech sound produced by humans when the breath flows out through the mouth without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, ...
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(Definition oflaxandvowelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflax vowel
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In particular, the analysis cannot in itself explain why there is vowel insertion after stops following alaxvowel.
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Therefore, the analysis cannot in itself explain why there is vowel insertion after stops following alaxvowel.
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Similarly, variation between vowel insertion and no vowel insertion is expected in a comparable word with a pre-finallaxvowel.
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The unsolved problem here is to explain exceptions such as cog (always with thelaxvowel) and dog (always with the tense vowel).
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The tense vowel exhibits a retraction movement in tip and body that differentiates it from the immediate fronting movement of thelaxvowel.
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They observed that when children acquire vowel length distinctions, they may show alternations between closed syllables containing alaxvoweland open syllables containing tense vowels.
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We maintain the classification of \\aelig\\ as alaxvowelbecause phonologically it patterns like other lax vowels.
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However, this series additionally affects the vowel in the following syllable, if the first flattened vowel is alaxvowel.
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Thelaxvowelmay even be retained in derived words where the original stressedlaxvowelhas disappeared, "e.g. musical" can be or.
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I do not currently have any evidence that front coronals group with lax vowels in phonological patterns.
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The late acquisition of some lax vowels, however, has led researchers to consider phonetic factors such as vowel duration as possible influences in vowel development.
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This, in turn, depends upon children's acquisition of tense versus lax vowels as well as diphthongs.
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While differing in detail, these authors agree that short lax vowels (except schwa) are excluded from word-final position and before another vowel.
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Interestingly, no child made a significant number of substitution errors with both tense and lax vowels at the same time.
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