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Meaning of "back vowels"

back vowels: In linguistics, these are vowels produced at the back of the mouth, such as /uː/ (as in 'goose') and /ɑː/ (as in 'bath')
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The open back vowels are phonetically central.
There is no symmetry between front and back vowels.
All of the back vowels are almost fully back.
Aspirated stops may be fricated before back vowels.
The close back vowels are often rather unrounded.
There is great symmetry in the spatial distribution of front and back vowels.
While the back vowels appear to the right.
Vowel harmony states that words may not contain both front and back vowels.
The other tense back vowels have shifted as well.
Back vowels are pronounced by placing the back of the tongue towards the soft palate.
It merely introduced new allophones of back vowels if certain vowels were in following syllables.
Phonologically, they behave like back vowels.
The close back vowels of Norwegian and Swedish are also compressed.
Under the palatal harmony rule a word may contain either all back vowels or front vowels.
Front and back vowels are not distinguished by a different pattern of variability ;.

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Otomian also have full series of front, central and back vowels.
Back vowels are made with rounded lips and the others are made with non-rounded lips.
The letter symbolizes when word-final and before the back vowels.
The high back vowels ( ) are often rather unrounded.
Portuguese vowels draw a v shape in the acoustic space, with front and back vowels clearly distinct.
Notes, All back vowels likely had front-vowel allophones as a result of Umlaut.
In Portuguese, there is great symmetry between front and back vowels.
Back vowels have low F2 frequencies, while front vowels have high F2 frequencies.
Thus, there is no one-to-one correspondence in the spelling of back vowels.
Other languages use ⟨ o ⟩ for various values, usually back vowels which are at least partly open.
For example, the locative suffix is - de after front vowels and - da after back vowels.
See Phonological history of English low back vowels 17th-century changes.
Besides the typical seven vowels of these languages, SBG has open-mid front ( ) and back vowels.
Unrounded back vowels are indicated by a corner ( ˻ ) below e or i.
However, in loanwords from Russian, may also be found before back vowels.
The vowels fall into two sets, the back vowels - a and - o, and the front vowels - e and - i.
The front vowels ( in frequency order, a, i, e ) appear more frequently than the back vowels u, o.
In the Attic dialect before the Classical period, the back vowels / u uː / were fronted to.

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