Definition: 1. A speech sound made with the vocal tract open. 2. A letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel.
Use 'vowel' in a sentence:
1. Some English vowel sounds which are not given weight in speech become reduced to a rather formless central vowel.
2. Because their language only contained one vowel.
3. Study on Vowel Selection in Voice Acoustic Measurements.
4. Almost every language has an O vowel, a K consonant, and an A vowel.
5. Music retrieval based on vowel detection and symbol feature representation.
6. This article offered an improving algorithm, vowel grouping.
7. By the end of the year, he had conquered his adopted country's vowel-rich language and arrived at the realization that he could, in fact, learn in Finland's Schools.
8. Used instead of my before an initial vowel or the letter H.
9. Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants.
10. The student was practising making a new vowel sound.
11. This is a front vowel, which for me, means it feels like it comes more from here, eh, than from here, ah, father.
12. A preliminary study of the influence of different consonants on the vowel in normal people.
13. Now, every simple vowel can be described and distinguished.
14. Spanish Silbo, a whistle language, has only four vowel and four consonant sounds. Audible for miles, it resembles bird calls.
15. "Leeves here" : another Hispanicism probably, since there is no vowel like the "lives" vowel in Spanish.
16. Some words have a vowel sound that's completely eliminated.
17. Thus, the third for loop finds two additional vowels.
18. Some Characteristics of the Vowel System for Chinese Character Pronunciation in the Korean Language.
19. The repetition of similar vowel sounds, especially in poetry.
20. Pattern Recognition of the Chinese Vowels with Autoregressive Model.
21. In non-initial syllables, there was more vowel reductions.
22. In French if a word begins with a vowel then it's linked to the previous word.
23. As a relatively independent sound system, interlanguage vowel system has its own specific regulations.
24. The progress of vowel loss can be divided into two stages.
25. And other sounds, like the higher vowel in "bath" that Americans use today, used to be standard in England.
26. A general knowledge of the differences between Chinese and English vowel systems may help reduce the difficulties.
27. "What distinguishes one vowel from another is the shape of the waveform entering the ear," Dr. Shamma said.
28. Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry.
29. Tut, tut, tut, we need a vowel.
30. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds.
31. Not a normal name, starts with a vowel, possibly foreign.
32. Not only did types of vowel sounds change, but some sounds simply disappeared from the general pronunciation of English.
33. Dr DE Boer, of the University of Amsterdam, then played the sounds to people and asked them to identify the vowel.
34. Examples of ablaut as a grammatical marker in Latin are the vowel changes in the perfect stem of verbs.
35. Long vowels are clearly distinct from short vowels since every short vowel, every single one, has a doubled consonant after it.
36. But he could say vowel clearly and began to learn vocabulary.
37. The Iconic Explanation of the Pragmatic Functions of English and Chinese Vowels.
38. Conclusion: The discrimination rate in common language of Chinese was lower than that of vowel.
39. Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
40. Cantonese has 59 vowel sounds, twice as many as Mandarin's 23.
41. A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Vowels within Chinese Vowel Frame; UNDERSTAND FAST SPEECH.
42. Stress Assignment and Vowel Change of English: A Cognitive Study.
43. Slightly varying a vowel or the pronunciation of a word can completely alter its intended meaning.
44. An improved vertical vowel recognition algorithm based on structured identification code.
45. The Division ⅱ Medial and the Amount of Vowels in Middle Chinese.
46. The Analysis of Vowel Error in Children with Articulation Disorder.
47. Pay attention to the drills in the English vowel sounds.
48. Note the various sounds of vowels followed by r.
49. The application instructs users to mimic 15 different vowel sounds and 16 consonant sounds to replicate received pronunciation.
50. The main difference is that Australians are used to speaking a little vaguely, and they emphasize vowel pronunciation.
51. The vowel in words like "my" and "thigh" is not very difficult.
52. The vowel in words like 'my' and 'thigh' is not very difficult.
53. The word commences with a vowel.
54. The Greeks improved upon it and made it a true alphabet by taking some signs that they didn't need for their own language by turning them into vowel sounds.
55. The alphabet might be more rational if all the vowels came first.
