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Is ʕ̞ equivalent to the semivowel articulation of ɑ?
It is not true, Ladefoged & Maddieson do not make that claim there or anywhere else. If you found such a Wiki page you could check the history to see who made up this attribution (it's always best ...
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Do the qualities of a vowel determine its semivowel’s place of articulation?
This is true by definition, although there is a terminological shift in some usages. The official IPA term for [i] is "close front unrounded vowel". Semivowels are non-syllabic "close&...
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Do the qualities of a vowel determine its semivowel’s place of articulation?
Yes, fundamentally and inextricably.
One of the weaknesses of the International Phonetic Alphabet is that it has entirely separate and unrelated ways of describing the articulation of consonants and ...
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