lax vowel
11lax — adjective 1》 not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful. 2》 (of the limbs or muscles) relaxed. 3》 Phonetics (of a speech sound, especially a vowel) pronounced with the vocal muscles relaxed. The opposite of tense1. Derivatives laxity noun laxly… …
12Sicilian Vowel System — The Sicilian Vowel System refers to the system of vowels in the Sicilian language. It is characteristic of the dialects of Sicily, Southern Calabria, and Salento. It may alternatively be referred to as the the Sicilian vocalic scheme University… …
13English-language vowel changes before historic r — In the phonological history of the English language, vowels followed (or formerly followed) by the phoneme /r/ have undergone a number of phonological changes. In recent centuries, most or all of these changes have involved merging of vowel… …
14Near-close vowel — IPA vowel chart Front Near front Central Near back …
15Near-open vowel — IPA vowel chart Front Near front Central Near back …
16Chilcotin language — Chilcotin Tŝinlhqut’in Spoken in Canada Region Chilcotin Country, Central Interior of British Columbia Ethnicity Chilcotin people …
17Phonological history of English short A — Trap bath split= The trap bath split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in southern varieties of English English (including Received Pronunciation), in the Boston accent, and in the Southern Hemisphere accents (Australian English, New Zealand… …
18Tenseness — In phonology, tenseness is a particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English. It has also occasionally been used to describe contrasts in consonants. Unlike most distinctive features,… …
19English orthography — is the alphabetic spelling system used by the English language. English orthography, like other alphabetic orthographies, uses a set of rules that generally governs how speech sounds are represented in writing. English has relatively complicated… …
20Quebec French phonology — Quebec French has more phonemes than Metropolitan French as it retains phonemic distinctions between IPA|/a/ and IPA|/ɑː/, IPA|/e/ and IPA|/ɛ/, and IPA|/ɛ̃/ and IPA|/œ̃/ whereas the latter of each pair has disappeared in Paris and several other… …
