central vowel

The main difference is that e is considered a central vowel.

The question of the status of a short mid central vowel is still unresolved.

A central vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

Eventually Jones also devised symbols for central vowels and positioned these on the vowel diagram.

Unstressed short vowels can be reduced to the neutral central vowel schwa in a similar way to English.

Until recently, however, the letter a was officially used for the central vowel, and much of the existing body of work on phonetics reflects that.

Amami has high and mid central vowels.

The central vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

Central vowels are indicated by an ogonek-like hook below (į).

The front and central vowels are unrounded; the back vowels are rounded.

Some dialects add the central vowel ə or ɨ.

Here, "similar" means that nasalization can be disregarded, and that the two central vowels can be identified with each other.

It is occasionally used as a phonetic symbol for a low central vowel, [ä].

The main difference between the Southern Vanuatu vowel systems lies in the status of the mid central vowel.

In transcriptions for some languages (including several dialects of English), this symbol is also used for the near-open central vowel.

There are usually only three vowels, , and , though some Yup'ik dialects also have mid central vowel.

Normally either of the higher central vowels (ɨ, ə) is inserted to break up consonant clusters in the middle of words.

The defining characteristic of a central vowel is that the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.

The mid central vowel ə only appears in Midob, not in other Nubian languages.

(Note that in 1982 Wells used an older version of the International Phonetic Alphabet which lacked many of the independent symbols for central vowels.

The vowels in Kensiu have five distinctive tongue heights for the front and central vowels and four for the back vowels.

The prominent differences is the front vowel ü in central and northern dialects and the central vowel ə.

The high central vowel occurs almost exclusively after /s/ or /ts/, and is almost a predictible allophone of /i/ in that position.

In Native American languages of North America (mainly Iroquoian), v represents a nasalized central vowel, /ə /.

Filled pauses vocalizations may be built around central vowels and speakers may differ in their preferences, but that they do not appear to behave as other words in the language.