vowel• And all his fans can restassured that even a vowel change won't fool us.• Some phonologists maintain that a syllabicconsonant is really a case of a vowel and a consonant that have become combined.• These often involve vowel sounds having their Creole rather than their expectedLondonpronunciations.• Much of the easy flow of speech depends on the neutralvowel.• In some accents - particularly London ones - we often find a close back rounded vowel instead.• Weaksyllables with close back rounded vowels are not so commonly found.• Diphthongs are made from a simplevowelphoneme followed by one of, , .
Originvowel
(1300-1400)Old Frenchvouel, from Latinvocalis; → VOCAL1
ADJECTIVE | VERB + VOWEL | VOWEL + NOUNADJECTIVE➤long, short長元音;短元音▸➤open, rounded開元音;圓唇元音➤back, front後元音;前元音▸➤weak弱元音▸➤flat窄口元音▸➤final尾元音▸➤accented, stressed重讀元音▸➤unaccented, unstressed非重讀元音VERB + VOWEL➤begin with, contain, end in, end with以元音開始;包含元音;以元音結尾➤pronounce發元音◇Americans pronounce this vowel like the one in 'may'.美國人發這個元音,就像發 may 這個單詞中的元音一樣。VOWEL + NOUN➤sound元音➤length元音音長▸➤system元音體系