Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A near-close vowel or a near-high vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a near-close vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted. Near-close vowels are sometimes described as lax variants of the fully close vowels.It is rare for languages to contrast a near-close vowel with a close vowel and a close-mid vowel based on height alone. An example of such language is Danish, which contrasts short and long versions of the close front unrounded /i/, near-close front unrounded /e̝/ and close-mid front unrounded /e/ vowels, though in order to avoid using any relative articulation diacritics, Danish /e̝/ and /e/ are typically transcribed with phonetically inacurrate symbols /e/ and /ɛ/, respectively. This contrast is not present in Conservative Danish, which realizes the latter two vowels as, respectively, close-mid [e] and mid [e̞].No language contrasts non-front close, near-close and close-mid vowels based on height alone, though all three of them may appear allophonically; for instance, Russian has three central rounded vowels: close [ʉ], an allophone of /u/ between soft consonants in stressed syllables; near-close [ʉ̞], an allophone of /u/ between soft consonants in unstressed syllables; close-mid [ɵ], an allophone of /o/ after soft consonants.↑ ↑ ↑ ↑"@en }
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- Near-close_vowel abstract "A near-close vowel or a near-high vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a near-close vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted. Near-close vowels are sometimes described as lax variants of the fully close vowels.It is rare for languages to contrast a near-close vowel with a close vowel and a close-mid vowel based on height alone. An example of such language is Danish, which contrasts short and long versions of the close front unrounded /i/, near-close front unrounded /e̝/ and close-mid front unrounded /e/ vowels, though in order to avoid using any relative articulation diacritics, Danish /e̝/ and /e/ are typically transcribed with phonetically inacurrate symbols /e/ and /ɛ/, respectively. This contrast is not present in Conservative Danish, which realizes the latter two vowels as, respectively, close-mid [e] and mid [e̞].No language contrasts non-front close, near-close and close-mid vowels based on height alone, though all three of them may appear allophonically; for instance, Russian has three central rounded vowels: close [ʉ], an allophone of /u/ between soft consonants in stressed syllables; near-close [ʉ̞], an allophone of /u/ between soft consonants in unstressed syllables; close-mid [ɵ], an allophone of /o/ after soft consonants.↑ ↑ ↑ ↑".
- Q1813464 abstract "A near-close vowel or a near-high vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a near-close vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted. Near-close vowels are sometimes described as lax variants of the fully close vowels.It is rare for languages to contrast a near-close vowel with a close vowel and a close-mid vowel based on height alone. An example of such language is Danish, which contrasts short and long versions of the close front unrounded /i/, near-close front unrounded /e̝/ and close-mid front unrounded /e/ vowels, though in order to avoid using any relative articulation diacritics, Danish /e̝/ and /e/ are typically transcribed with phonetically inacurrate symbols /e/ and /ɛ/, respectively. This contrast is not present in Conservative Danish, which realizes the latter two vowels as, respectively, close-mid [e] and mid [e̞].No language contrasts non-front close, near-close and close-mid vowels based on height alone, though all three of them may appear allophonically; for instance, Russian has three central rounded vowels: close [ʉ], an allophone of /u/ between soft consonants in stressed syllables; near-close [ʉ̞], an allophone of /u/ between soft consonants in unstressed syllables; close-mid [ɵ], an allophone of /o/ after soft consonants.↑ ↑ ↑ ↑".