back vowel

collocation in English

meanings of backand vowel

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back
noun[ C ]
uk /bæk/ us /bæk/
the inside or outside part of an object, vehicle, building, etc. that is furthest from ...
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vowel
noun[ C ]
uk /vaʊəl/ us /vaʊəl/
a speech sound produced by humans when the breath flows out through the mouth without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, ...
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Examples of back vowel

back vowel
Wiese proposes an analysis of assimilation of the fricative to a preceding backvowel within the phonological word.
Not surprisingly, there is no evidence of low backvowel merger in the region.
The lowest frequency vowel category, relative to expectation for all coronal categories, was the backvowel category.
The basic palatal identity of the stop is confirmed by the fact that it is retained even after a backvowel (14b).
For this reason, it is conspicuous that the most frequent onset in these data occurs with a backvowel.
The high-frequency criterion was met by selecting from the 1000 commonest adjectives all monomorphemic ones with a front or backvowel in stressed position.
This relative similarity in the national backvowel picture does not suggest a stable back system.
The study presents evidence that the low backvowel merger has appeared widespread across the state within a single generation.
Gliding fails when nouns have an intervening morpheme boundary followed by a high backvowel or when verbs have a stressed high vowel in some form of the paradigm.
Based on the analysis of these acoustic parameters, the low backvowel systems of participants in this project are classified in one of the following four ways.
The remaining backvowel, the unrounded [], can be characterized in terms of its feature value of [+low].
However, a contrast between front and back rounded vowels, [y] vs. [u], becomes problematic if the backvowel is fronted too much, because that renders [u] too similar to [y].
The author ends the chapter with some musings on why the phoneme /c/ has a restricted distri bution by never occurring postvocalically after a backvowel.
Note that just because a language has only one non-close non-open backvowel, it still may not be a cardinal mid vowel.
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