Semivowel | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 17/12/2018

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Semivowel


00:00:32 1 Classification
00:02:01 2 Contrast with vowels
00:03:42 3 Contrast with fricatives/spirant approximants
00:05:11 4 See also



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SUMMARY
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In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel or glide, also known as a non-syllabic voiced, is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable. Examples of semivowels in English are the consonants y and w, in yes and west. Written  in IPA, y and w are near to the vowels ee and oo in seen and moon, written  in IPA. The term glide may alternatively refer to any type of transitional sound, not necessarily a semivowel.