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  2. Close-mid front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Its vowel height is close-mid, also known as high-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel (a high vowel) and a mid vowel.; Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned forward in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.

  3. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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    When the stroke is part of a lowercase [4] and rises above the height of an x (the x height), it is known as an ascender. [7] Letters with ascenders are b d f h k l. A stroke which drops below the baseline is a descender. [7] Letters with descenders are g j p q y. An arching stroke is a shoulder as in the top of an R or sometimes just an arch ...

  4. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Dictionaries produced in Israel use the IPA rarely and sometimes use the Hebrew alphabet for transcription of foreign words. [ note 15 ] Bilingual dictionaries that translate from foreign languages into Russian usually employ the IPA, but monolingual Russian dictionaries occasionally use pronunciation respelling for foreign words.

  5. ITE - Wikipedia

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    In-the-ear (ITE) hearing aids ... a suffix for a chemical name of a molecule with one less oxygen atom ... Inherit the Earth (ITE), a video game-ite, a suffix meaning ...

  6. Line breaking rules in East Asian languages - Wikipedia

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    Move punctuation character to the end of the previous line. Oidashi (Wrap to next) Send characters not permitted at the end of a line to the next line, increase tracking to pad out first line. Another use is to wrap a character from the first line with the goal of preventing a character that shouldn't start a line from coming first on the next ...

  7. Close vowel - Wikipedia

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    A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology [1]), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that the tongue is positioned approximately as close as possible to the roof of the mouth as it can be without creating a constriction.

  8. Interruptible foldback - Wikipedia

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    Interruptible foldback (IFB), also known as interrupted foldback, interruptible feedback, or interrupt for broadcast, is a monitoring and cueing system used in television, filmmaking, video production, and radio broadcast for one-way communication from the director or assistant director to on-air talent or a remote location.

  9. Prosodic unit - Wikipedia

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    Breathing, both inhalation and exhalation, only occurs at the boundaries between higher units. Several short contours may carry an additional overall gradual decline in pitch and slowing of tempo; this larger unit is termed a declination unit (DU).