vowel space
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvowelandspace
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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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space
noun
uk/speɪs/us/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofvowelandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvowel space
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All vowels have to be formed in the posterior portion of the vocal tract, the 'vowelspace', in order to have an appropriate formant structure.
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Any process that pushes mid vowels towards the corners ofvowelspaceis thus straightforwardly expressible as element simplification.
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These involved the organization of the low-front and low-back corners of thevowelspace.
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The basis for this geographically discontinuous group was that all of its members feature single phonemes in both corners of the lowvowelspace.
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Within an orthodox feature framework, the tricorn organisation ofvowelspaceis no more than a contingent fact.
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In an element-based model, on the other hand, the triangular patterning ofvowelspacefollows as a necessary consequence of there being three basic elements.
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During development, thevowelspaceis reorganized in that certain of the innate boundaries come to be ignored in linguistic processing.
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This might suggest that as had, head, and hid moved they retained the durations associated with their earlier positions in thevowelspace.
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There appears to be a more or less constant distance between the front and back corners of thevowelspace.
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Thus, in the case of vowels, linguistic systems prefer to disperse their vowels throughout the availablevowelspaceand preserve those features that enhance vowel contrasts along particular acoustic dimensions.
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Speaker normalization techniques aim to transform the acousticvowelspacesuch that phonetically similar vowels are grouped together and phonetically different vowels are separated.
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One result of this development is that vowels broadly transcribed as ' u ' in these systems do not occupy the canonically high back corner ofvowelspace.
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For one thing, the element approach more directly reflects the fundamentally triangular organization ofvowelspacethat is evidenced in phonological universals, speech production and language acquisition.
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Techniques address expansion ofvowelspace, breathing linked to rhythm and pausing, voice projection and flow, enhancement of pitch range, shadowing and mirroring, monologue and dialogue.
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Third, retraction has a systemic effect in the sense that retracted vowels, as a class, occupy a distinct portion of thevowelspace(low, back space).
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However, stressed and unstressed vowels already show different distributions in thevowelspace.
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In some cases, the vowel is in the high, back corner of thevowelspacenear.
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Vowelspaceis also expanded in infant directed speech allowing for accurate phoneme discrimination.
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However, if the parents utterances possess a well-definedvowelspace, their children produce clearly distinguished vowel classes earlier.
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