A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable
(L vocalis littera vocal letter) a phone or speech sound in which the breath is not significantly obstructed (vs consonant), but only shaped by the tongue
A conventional vocal sound produced by certain positions of the speech organs which offer little obstruction to the air stream and which form a series of resonators above the level of the larynx in the vocal tracts Distinguished from consonant
one of a class of speech sounds in the articulation of which the oral part of the breath channel is not blocked and is not constricted enough to cause audible friction; it the one most prominent sound in a syllable In English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y Welsh adds the letter w to this list, which explains why so many English speakers think of Welsh as a vowel-less language
A speech sound uttered with voice or whisper characterised by the resonance from the vocal cavities
A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs
a phoneme is a vowel sound if, before words beginning with it, the indefinite article takes the form 'an' rather than 'a'
Brief portion of an utterance in which no obstruction to the air stream is created throughout the Vocal tract The character designating such a sign
A vowel is a sound such as the ones represented in writing by the letters `a', `e' `i', `o' and `u', which you pronounce with your mouth open, allowing the air to flow through it. Compare consonant. The vowel in words like `my' and `thigh' is not very difficult. Speech sound in which air from the lungs passes through the mouth with minimal obstruction and without audible friction, like the i in fit. The word also refers to a letter representing such a sound (a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y). In articulatory phonetics (see articulation), vowels are classified by tongue and lip position; for example, high vowels like the i in machine and the u in flute are both pronounced with the tongue arched high in the mouth, but in u the lips are also rounded. Single vowel sounds are monophthongs; two vowel sounds pronounced as one syllable, like the ou in round, are diphthongs
A voiced segment characterized by generalized friction of the air passing in a continuous stream through the pharynx and opened mouth, with relatively no narrowing or other obstruction of the speech organs