Assertion: vowel | /r/HasProperty | open
Facets:
value: respectively
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: "book" is closer and further back than that in "buck", while the vowels in "back" and "bark" are front open and back open respectively.
text: The tongue is highest in the vowels in heed and who’d, which are therefore called high, or close, vowels, and lowest in the vowels in had and hod, which are called low, or open, vowels.
text: Note that they have nothing to do with open and close vowels, but are defined according to the phoneme that ends the syllable: a vowel (open syllable) or a consonant (closed syllable).
text: According to the degree to which the tongue is raised, vowels may be closed, or narrow, if they are formed when the tongue is relatively high, and they may be open, or broad, if the tongue is in a relatively low position during their pronunciation.
text: "book" is closer and further back than that in "buck", while the vowels in "back" and "bark" are front open and back open respectively.