sonido vocal

Definitions of sonido vocal
  1. noun
    a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
    synonyms: sonido vocálico
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    antonyms:
    sonido consonante, sonido consonántico
    a speech sound that is not a vowel
    types:
    gradación
    a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)
    diptongo
    a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
    type of:
    sonido
    (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
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