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| | Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net |
 | | It's open source, so if you can program, you could create the feature, send it to the developers, and hope it makes its way into the official version. | | | Seems like that should be the link (which we do already have an entry for). | | | In most other languages that use the Latin alphabet, the letter A denotes either an open back unrounded vowel (IPA {{IPA/&;/}}), or an open central unrounded vowel (IPA /a/). |
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http://www.mauspfeil.net/A.html
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| | Open-mid back unrounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. | | | The open-mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. | | | Its vowel height is open-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel and a mid vowel. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-mid_back_unrounded_vowel
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| | CONK! Encyclopedia: Cot-caught_merger |
| | The precise phonetic value of the merged vowel varies from region to region, as do the phonetic values of the unmerged vowel in regions where the merger has not occurred. | | | The sound change causes the vowel in words like cot, rock, and doll to be pronounced the same as the vowel in the words caught, talk, law, and small, so that for example cot and caught become homophones, and the two vowel classes become merged as a single phoneme. | | | The presence of the merger and its absence are both found in many different regions of the continent, and in both urban and rural environments. |
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http://www.conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Cot-caught_merger
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| | english language - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com |
| | A large number of French words were assimilated into Old English, which also lost most of its inflections, resulting in Middle English. | | | Seaspeak and the related Airspeak and Policespeak, all based on restricted vocabularies, were designed by Edward Johnson in the 1980s to aid international cooperation and communication in specific areas. | | | The North American variation of this sound is a rhotic vowel. |
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http://www.onpedia.com/encyclopedia/english-language
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| | E-Intro to Old English - Appendix B |
| | A vowel is always voiced; so are the consonants [bdgvz]. | | | A consonant produced by passing air through a narrow opening in the mouth, e.g. | | | Pronounced while the vocal chords are not vibrating, e.g. |
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http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/research/rawl/IOE/ipa.html
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| | I'm thinking of 'u' csmonitor.com |
| | Compare the sound of "potato chips" versus "pork chops." Which one sounds like more substantial victuals? | | | But the sound that most strikes me is the short "u" - the "u" of "putt," that is, not "put." I find out the "putt" sound is known to phoneticians as an "open mid back unrounded" vowel. | | | The "open mid back unrounded" vowel is the sound of thunder and drum rolls, but also of a dull thud in the next room, or a blunt rebuke. |
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http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/0716/p18s04-hfgn.htm
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| | International Phonetic Alphabet |
| | in American English, the unstressed vowel in better | | | in American English the vowel in nurse, stir |
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http://www.redstart.com/XHTML/IPA.htm
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