English language

How to pronounce vowel in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms vowel sound
Type of phone, sound, speech sound
Has types schwa, diphthong, ablaut, shwa, stem vowel, thematic vowel
Derivation vocalic, vowelize
Type Words
Type of letter of the alphabet, letter, alphabetic character
Has types vowel point
Derivation vocalic

Examples of vowel

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This indicated to researchers that they were learning the vowel sounds in utero.
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It is accompanied by tense voice phonation throughout the duration of the vowel.
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That is, there is a set of ejective consonants and the usual seven-vowel system.
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If the nasal was absorbed by a stressed vowel, it would also lengthen the vowel.
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If a syllable has a high tone, for example, the pitch of the vowel will be high.
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Also, the combination of a long vowel and a short vowel deletes the short vowel.
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To mark the high tone, the letter h is attached to the vowel with the high tone.
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First and second person plural lose the e before a suffix starting with a vowel.
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Brian Walton's 1657 polyglot bible followed Cappel in revising the vowel points.
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More examples
  • A speech sound made with the vocal tract open
  • A letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
  • In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! or oh! , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants, such as English sh! ...
  • A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable; A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o and u, and sometimes y
  • (Vowels) the letters a, e, i, o, and u. Sometimes the letter y is considered a vowel. These letters represent a speech sound created by the free passage of breath through the mouth.
  • (Vowels) A, E, I, O, U. Note that vowel sounds can be made up of more than one vowel.
  • (Vowels) [from Latin vocabilis pronounceable cf Greek phone vowel, voice] Largely synonymous with voice. Vowels are the most easily pronounced of speech sounds; no mute consonant can be pronounced without a vowel, and a liquid consonant is a type of vowel. ...
  • (Vowels) are each pronounced individually when one after the other.
  • (Vowels) are letters of the alphabet that are made without an audible stopping of breath - a,e,i,o,u