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Encyclopedia > Vowel height

In phonetics, vowel height refers to the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth in a vowel sound. The first formant of a vowel (F1) usually corresponds to vowel height, with a higher F1 corresponding to a lower vowel height and a lower F1 corresponding to a higher vowel height.


The International Phonetic Alphabet identifies 7 different vowel heights, although no language distinguishes all 7:

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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Open central unrounded vowel (3143 words)
In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by an open configuration of the vocal tract, in contrast to consonants, which...
Where vowels appear in pairs, the vowel to the left of the bullet (•) corresponds to an unrounded vowel and the vowel to the right of the bullet corresponds to a rounded vowel.
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WikiMobs - Vowel height (193 words)
of a vowel (F1) usually corresponds to vowel height, with a higher F1 corresponding to a lower vowel height and a lower F1 corresponding to a higher vowel height.
Otherwise, the usual limit on the number of vowel heights is four.
The parameter of vowel height appears to be the primary feature of vowels cross-linguistically in that all languages use height contrastively.
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