LIN228H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cardinal Vowels, Quadrilateral, Vowel Length
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Height: high, low, mid, depending on the highest point of the tongue. Backness: front, back, central, depending on the highest point of the tongue. Rounding: the shape of the lips, high vowels generally more rounded than lower ones. Vowel quadrilateral divides vowels equally between high and low. Represents the entire space where a vowel can be made. Cardinal vowels are produced at the extreme periphery of the vowel space and are. Primary cardinal vowels are all unrounded, with the exception [(cid:1828)], which is unrounded, equidistant from each other and [(cid:1829)], which is rounded. Rounding typically lowers the frequency of both f1 and f2. A subscript cap shows lack of syllabicity, i. e. , to change a vowel to a glide: e . Diphthongs with the ordinary vowel-glide sequence are falling diphthongs four glides are so common that they have their own symbol: [i u (cid:1857) ] become [j w (cid:1858)]
