vowel sound
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvowelandsound
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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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sound
noun
uk/saʊnd/us/saʊnd/
something that you can hear or that can ...
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(Definition ofvowelandsoundfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvowel sound
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There are no words; the voice sings throughout to thevowelsound'ah'.
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Used before words beginning with avowelsound.
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Eachvowelsoundis associated with a specific formant configuration and by changing the shape of our vocal tract we change the lower formants as we speak or sing.
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I have argued that there are two ways avowelsoundcan be inserted in a word.
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There are fleeting moments where fragments become phonemes and avowelsoundleans towards the possibility of speech.
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The one-syllable words, with rare exceptions, are left open, with thevowelsoundfollowing the consonant to achieve completion.
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One-syllable words, with rare exceptions, are left open with thevowelsoundfollowing the consonant to achieve completion.
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Specifically, they compared the consistency with which a particularvowelsoundis spelled when the vowel is considered alone versus its spelling consistency in bodies and heads.
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We have already seen some of the patterns that can be used to test whether avowelsoundis syllabic, including language games, minimal word requirements and syllable-counting allomorphy.
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The default case is that each perceivedvowelsoundis uniquely associated with a group of gestures (most importantly, a tongue-body gesture).
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The idea that an audiblevowelsoundmay fail to count as a syllable is not new, but is not widely accepted either.
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In the first sentence an effort is made to give the impression of the lengthening of thevowelsoundin "so" for the sake of emphasis.
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Finally, we examined the number of times children produced a response that had the samevowelsoundas the target word.
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The basic consonantal symbol was considered to have an inherent avowelsound.
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For example, thevowelsoundin let and lit.
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Thevowelsoundin words such as bed or men does not change from.
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It is thevowelsoundwhich is used with each unmarked or basic consonant symbol.
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A long vowel means that thevowelsoundis stressed more in a word when spoken.
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Basically, they glide from onevowelsoundinto another.
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