| 词汇 | semivowel |
| 释义 | semivowel noun[ C ] phonetics specializeduk /ˈsem.iˌvaʊ.əl/ us /ˈsem.iˌvaʊ.əl/ a speech sound that is produced like a vowel but that functions as a consonant: 半母音，半元音 The words "yes" and "well" start with semivowels."Yes"和"well"这两个词都是以半元音开头的。 Semivowels are glides like /w/ and /j/ that act as part of a diphthong.半元音是像/w/和/j/这样的滑音，作为双元音的一部分。 Either the first or the second vowel will be treated as a semivowel. The combination of semivowel plus vowel e.g. [je] is a rising diphthong. A semivowel is a gliding sound in which the speech organs start at or near a close vowel and immediately move away to some other vowel. Linguistics: phonology & phonetics accommodation alliterative alveolar apheresis aphesis assonance diphthong homonym intrusive labial labialize labiodental postalveolar postconsonantal retroflex retroflexion rhotic the International Phonetic Alphabet unpronounceable unrepeatable Examples of semivowelsemivowel As for the other data tokens, segments surrounded by liquids, semivowels, and nasals were not used in the reference vowel corpus. It is usually described as an approximant or a semivowel. The possessive prefix on the relational noun is underlyingly the semivowel /j/. This language manifests a pattern of regressive nasalization in which nasality spreads from a nasal consonant over a nasal span that includes vowels, semivowels and laryngeal glides. In the glottalized nasals, semivowels, and voiced lateral, however, the glottis is closed simultaneously with the oral contact but released instantly thereafter, the voiced continuant thereupon becoming fully audible. The question immediately arises as to how these semivowels are sequenced with respect to other vowels, and also, more generally, the question of sequencing of vowels within monosyllables. Vocalic segments with preceding or following liquids, semivowels, and nasals were generally avoided (except in the case of -ly tokens, all of which had initial 0 l 0). There were no monophonemic long vowels nor diphthongs, though sequences of vowel and semivowel within a single syllable (such as j) could exist. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Note that the semivowel "i" is always pronounced as a full vowel in these cases. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In many morphological processes, a vowel i before another vowel may become the semivowel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, when immediately followed by the corresponding semivowel, they appear as "ajj, aww, eww, iww". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The second element of the diphthongs is considered a consonant or semivowel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other descriptions use "semivowel" for vowel-like sounds that are not syllabic, but do not have the increased stricture of approximants. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A vowel is also understood to be syllabic: an equivalent open but non-syllabic sound is called a semivowel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The palatal stop may be realized as a semivowel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of semivowel These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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