vowel sound
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- noun
- /ˈvaʊəl saʊnd/
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sonido vocálico
- In English, the letter 'A' can represent different vowel sounds in different words.
- short vowel sound
- long vowel sound
Could poetry have begun as the chanting of vowel sounds around a communal fire, or by mothers to infants?
- Could poetry have begun as the chanting of vowel sounds around a communal fire, or by mothers to infants?
- We are going to hear it with an R after it, but the vowel sound is still this front stash.
- But what's tricky as well with accents is that is that I think a lot of people think that it's just as simple as vowel sounds and and away you go.
Examples
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Southern Irish accent's the strut vowel, the vowel sound in words like come, come on, mother.
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Now, how many vowel sounds do you think you heard altogether?
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You say V when it's followed by a vowel sound, not spelling.
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And of course, we can generate lots of other vowel sounds and change the fundamental frequency at the same time.
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These words all started with different vowel sounds that were then affected differently by the vowel shift.
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When there's an E at the end of the word, is the vowel sound long or short?
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When transitioning to vowel sounds, students should first descend on "ooh" from high to low.
Academic text (2009) -
She could hit all the English vowel sounds, high and low, that most Russians mumbled.
Fiction book (2000) -
Matching vowel sounds presented a special complication because Spanish has fewer vowel distinctions than English.
Academic text (2012) -
The English language has many vowel sounds associated with a variety of monosyllabic words (Onesti, 1974).
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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A speech sound made with the mouth open so air flows freely
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'vowel' (a voiced speech sound) and 'sound' (an auditory event); together they denote the specific type of sound that is a vowel. This is a transparent, cross-linguistically common nominal composition that a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand.
Etymology
Vowel sound shows a clear picture: a vowel is a voice made with the mouth open and a sound is what you hear, so together they mean the open, central sound that is the 'heart of a syllable'.