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In phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. It is labialization of a vowel. When a rounded vowel is pronounced, the lips form a circular opening, and unrounded vowels are pronounced with the lips relaxed. In most languages, front vowels tend to be unrounded, and back vowels tend
The bullets are the cardinal vowel points. (A parallel diagram covers the front and central rounded and back unrounded vowels.) The cells indicate the ranges of articulation that could reasonably be transcribed with those cardinal vowel letters, [i, e, ɛ, a, ɑ, ɔ, o, u, ɨ], and non-cardinal [ə].
near-open front unrounded vowel, open-mid front unrounded vowel or open front unrounded vowel: æ, ɛ or a: Uralicist notation ö: o with diaeresis: close-mid front rounded vowel, open-mid front rounded vowel or mid front rounded vowel: ø, œ or ø̞: Americanist and Uralicist notation ü: u with diaeresis
The French vowel transcribed that way is closer to . If a mid-central vowel of a language is not a reduced vowel, or if it may be stressed, it may be more unambiguous to transcribe it with one of the other mid-central vowel letters: ɘ ɜ for an unrounded vowel or ɵ ɞ for a rounded vowel.
The provision of diacritics by the International Phonetic Association further implies that intermediate values may also be reliably recognized, so that a phonetician might be able to produce and recognize not only a close-mid front unrounded vowel [e] and an open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ] but also a mid front unrounded vowel [e̞], a ...
This table lists the vowel letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA: Vowels; Front Central Back; Close: i. y. ... Open front unrounded vowel: open: front:
Vowel letters are also grouped in pairs – of unrounded and rounded vowel sounds – with these pairs also arranged from front on the left to back on the right, and from maximal closure at top to minimal closure at bottom.
Typographically, it is a turned letter m ; given its relation to the sound represented by the letter u , it can be considered a ligature of 2 u 's. The close back unrounded vowel can in many cases be considered the vocalic equivalent of the voiced velar approximant [ɰ]. Spectrogram of [ɯ]