vowel

DEFINITIONS OF: vowel

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; ablaut
a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song); diphthong
a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another; schwa, shwa
a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables; stem vowel, thematic vowel
a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection; gradation, grade
a degree of ablaut; murmur, murmur vowel
a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant

Type of:: phone, sound, speech sound
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

Types:: vowel point
a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel

Type of:: alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech

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