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semivowel::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | glide |
| Type of | phone, sound, speech sound |
| Has types | palatal |
Examples of semivowel
semivowel
No contrast exists between long high vowels and short high vowels followed by a semivowel.
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After two consonants, the latter being a semivowel, all vowels are long.
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Also a semivowel is rather a vowel than a consonant, a vowel that you pronounce very shortly.
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Any Marshallese vowel can also have an asyllabic semivowel allophone.
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Hence this rule replaces a vowel with its corresponding semivowel when preceded by another vowel.
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Similarly, languages often avoid configurations where a semivowel precedes its corresponding vowel.
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Semivowel-vowel sequences are treated differently in both languages when it comes to accentuation rules.
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A medial is a semivowel that comes before the vowel.
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In many cases, it is known as a semivowel.
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- A vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
- In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel (or glide) is a sound that is phonetically equivalent to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary rather than nucleus.
- A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel; A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English
- A vowel-like sound which functions in a consonant-like way as the onset or coda of a syllable. The semivowels of Spanish are [j] and [w].
