Record ID

UAM18f3fc50b8c34ea0bd31cd3ee82363c0

Author

Jarosław Weckwerth Jarosław Weckwerth,, Laboratorium Wydawnicze [nowa struktura organizacyjna] (SNoJiL/WA/JdnstkPmcnczWydzłAn)School of Languages and Literatures (SNoJiL)

Pages

40-64

Book

Knight Rachael-Anne , Rachael-Anne Knight,, Undefined Affiliation Setter Jane Jane Setter,, Undefined Affiliation (eds.): The Cambridge handbook of phonetics, Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics , 2021, Cambridge University Press, 720 p., ISBN 9781108495738. DOI:10.1017/9781108644198 Opening in a new tab

Keywords in original language

vowels, diphthongs, articulation, transcription, Cardinal Vowels, vowel space, variability

Abstract in original language

Vowels are traditionally viewed as one of the two major classes of speech sound. Vowels lack contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth, and they are normally voiced. Importantly, the speaker receives little proprioceptive feedback from their speech organs, meaning that it is not fully appropriate to define a vowel in terms of place and manner of articulation. Instead, tongue height and advancement are used to describe vowel quality, and auditory features play a more important role in description, e.g. with reference to the Cardinal Vowels system. Vowel categories form a continuum, and this has repercussions in terms of articulatory, auditory and acoustic overlap between contrastive categories and the special role that vowel gradience plays in dialect variation and language change. Other features of vowels stem from the general openness of vocalic articulations. For example, in principle, lip rounding can be combined with any tongue position, and nasality too demonstrates specific patterns that have both phonetic and phonological dimensions. Vowel quantity, or duration, is also used in differing ways by different languages, both phonemically and allophonically

DOI

DOI:10.1017/9781108644198.003 Opening in a new tab

URL

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108644198.003 Opening in a new tab

Language

eng (en) English

Score (nominal)

50

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Score

Ministerial score = 50.0, 23-02-2022, MonographChapterAuthor

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