Questions tagged [vowel-height]
One of the three main dimensions of vowels, reflecting the height of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth. The other dimensions are roundness and frontness/backness.
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How to determine one's own native vowel phone repertoire?
I'm an armchair linguist. By this I mean it's been an absorbing hobby for decades by reading books and online and playing with many languages. But I've never taken any course or other kind of formal ...
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Fronting of a to æ in European Portuguese
In Portuguese there are two accepted reasons vowels in verbs alternate in height.
The vowel harmonizing rule states that where the theme vowel (a from -ar, e from -er, and i from -ir) is deleted ...
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When a vowel is nasalized does it effect on how open/close + front/back it would be?
I'm trying to generalize what environments a certain set of phonemes occur, but I'm not sure if nasalization would affect where the vowel would be on the IPA vowel chart. I think my analysis of the ...
