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California English: Information from Answers.com (2053 words) |
 | Front vowels are raised before velar nasal [ŋ], so that the near-open front unrounded vowel /æ/ and the near-close near-front unrounded vowel /ɪ/ are raised to a close-mid front unrounded vowel [e] and a close front unrounded vowel [i] before [ŋ]. |
| As with other vowel shifts, several vowels may be seen moving in a chain shift around the mouth. |
| As with many vowel shifts, these significant changes occurring in the spoken language are rarely noticed by average speakers; imitation of peers and other sociolinguistic phenomena play a large part in determining the extent of the vowel shift in a particular speaker. |
| What is a Vowel? (496 words) |
| Vowels can be contrasted with consonants, which are sounds for which there are one or more points where air is stopped. |
| Vowels in many languages are not crucial to the general meaning of the word. |
| Since a vowel refers to a specific type of sound, orthographically some letters may represent a consonant in some circumstances, and a vowel in others. |
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