Vowel | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Vowel


00:00:35 1 Definition
00:03:10 2 Articulation
00:04:40 2.1 Height
00:07:16 2.2 Backness
00:08:42 2.3 Front, raised and retracted
00:09:44 2.4 Roundedness
00:12:20 2.5 Nasalization
00:12:48 2.6 Phonation
00:13:50 2.7 Tongue root retraction
00:14:21 2.8 Secondary narrowings in the vocal tract
00:15:16 2.8.1 Rhotic vowels
00:15:32 2.9 Tenseness/checked vowels versus free vowels
00:16:45 3 Acoustics
00:19:44 4 Prosody and intonation
00:21:42 5 Monophthongs, diphthongs, triphthongs
00:23:05 6 Written vowels
00:27:01 6.1 Shifts
00:27:54 7 Audio samples
00:28:03 8 Systems
00:31:02 8.1 Words without vowels
00:35:53 8.2 Words consisting of only vowels
00:37:39 9 See also



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SUMMARY
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A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (length). They are usually voiced, and are closely involved in prosodic variation such as tone, intonation and stress. Vowel sounds are produced with an open vocal tract. 
The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "vocal" (i.e. relating to the voice). In English, the word vowel is commonly used to refer both to vowel sounds and to the written symbols that represent them.