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Meaning of "open-mid"
open-mid (adjective) - in linguistics, referring to a vowel sound produced with the lower jaw positioned between that of an open vowel and a close-mid vowel
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- pronounced with the tongue in a position approximately one-third of the way between an open and a close vowel
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The short open-mid vowels also vary depending on their environment.
Another possibility is using the symbol for the open-mid central unrounded vowel with a raising diacritic.
Open-mid back rounded vowel.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open-mid back rounded vowel.
Open-mid back unrounded vowel.
And are short open-mid vowels.
Open-mid central unrounded vowel.
Mid vowels tend to be open-mid.
Open-mid front rounded vowel.
Besides the typical seven vowels of these languages, SBG has open-mid front ( ) and back vowels.
Open-mid rounded central vowel.
Acoustically, it is an open-mid front-central rounded vowel.
Open-mid unrounded front vowel.
Between soft consonants, it is somewhat fronted . / ɛ / is open-mid front unrounded.
Another allophone, an open-mid occurs word-initially and between hard consonants.
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The ending points of / iə, ʉə, eə / have been variously described as mid and open-mid.
Note that the e is open-mid while the o is close-mid, and that there is no * oy.
Languages may have a mid-central rounded vowel ( a rounded ), distinct from both the close-mid and open-mid vowels.
In Udmurt, it represents the open-mid back unrounded vowel / ʌ /.
In Mari, it represents the open-mid front rounded vowel / œ /.
In Classical Greek, it represented a long open-mid front unrounded vowel, / ɛː /.
