consonant
B1
a letter that represents a sound produced in this way: 元音字母
The vowels in English are a, e, i, o, and u.英语中的元音字母是 a，e，i，o，u。

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mispronounce
postalveolar
postconsonantal
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retroflexion
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the International Phonetic Alphabet
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vowel | American Dictionary

vowel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈvɑʊ·əl/
writing
a speech sound produced by human beings when the breath flows out through the mouth without being blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips
writing
A vowel is also a letter that represents a sound produced in this way:
The vowels in English are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

Examples of vowel

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In other words, vowels become longer when they precede voiced sounds.
Combinations of consonants and vowels that form real words or letter names were excluded.
The short vowels are represented by diacritics, which are placed either above or below the letter associated with that sound in a word.
She observed positive relationships between preschoolers' performance at reading as well as composing yoo'ons, and their performance at associating two syllables sharing their final vowels.
Another difference was that the context sensitive vowels and consonant items differed with respect to the constraining context.
The height difference is a response to the principle of snterest which favors maximum perceptual differentiation between the stressed vowels.
An independently established hierarchy blocks high back vowels from appearing in these forms.
Conspicuously absent, even in that very motley picture, are back vowels of any length in the left half of the structure.
They were borrowed with short vowels constrained by the prosodic structure and remained as such.
Otherwise, there is no reason why such vowels should always have been short.
Also, under cyclic stress assignment and stress clash, long vowels can be shortened and destressed, as in pairs like explain+explanation.
Their first syllables contain vowels which exhibit the normal historical changes for stressed vowels.
The vowels contrast in height and backness/frontness, and the high back and mid back vowels are also both round.
The asymmetrical pattern, where high vowels follow nonhigh vowels, is worth additional discussion.
His spellings give clear evidence of the variation in his own speech, with raised, unraised and even lowered equivalents of the short front vowels.
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Collocations withvowel

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These are words often used in combination with vowel.

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front vowel
Many readers will no doubt wonder if */x/ can also precede a front vowel.
lax vowel
In particular, the analysis cannot in itself explain why there is vowel insertion after stops following a lax vowel.
long vowel
As a result, the reduplicant contains a longvowel on the surface.
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