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- Vertical_vowel_system abstract "A vertical vowel system is the system of vowels in a language that requires only vowel height to phonemically distinguish vowels. Theoretically, rounding, frontness and backness could also be used in one-dimensional vowel systems; however, vertical refers specifically to the usage of vowel height as the sole distinguishing feature.Two different diachronic mechanisms may give rise to a vertical vowel system. In some cases, the front-back distinction may simply be lost when vowels are merged. This has occurred in Wichita, in which an old vowel /u/ (preserved in the related language Pawnee) has merged with /i/. However, the Wichita vowel system is not phonetically vertical, as /a/ is realised as open back, /e/ as open-mid front, and /i/ as close to close-mid front; hence, the feature [± back] is relevant to the phonetics of the language, even though it is not a salient phonological distinction. Similarly, the vowel [o] is heard in Wichita utterances, although this vowel is usually the phonetic result of a contraction of sequences of [short vowel + w + short vowel], a phenomenon also noted in other languages with vertical vowel systems.More striking is a phenomenon whereby one or more phonological features of vowels are lost and reassigned to the consonants at the syllable periphery, leaving all vowels underspecified for frontness, rounding, or both. This has occurred in Arrernte, in which vowel rounding has been lost and consonantal labialisation gained as a result; famously, in all members of the Northwest Caucasian family, both rounding and frontness have been reassigned to the syllable periphery, the former surfacing as consonantal labialisation, and the latter as palatalisation. This has also occurred in Marshallese. Some argue that the short vowels of Irish have similarly lost their frontness specification, forming a rudimentary vertical system. However, almost all Irish consonants appear in palatalised and non-palatalised forms, so the loss of frontness specification is viewed as a consequence, rather than a cause, of consonant palatalisation. Furthermore, the loss of frontness specification in Irish is limited to the short vowels of the language; the long vowels of Irish retain a front-back distinction. Marshallese also has front-back distinction for its long vowels, but these are phonemically sequences of /CVGVC/ where /G/ is an approximant; for example, rooj \"rose\" is broadly /rˠɜwɜtʲ/, but more narrowly [rˠʌ͡ɔː͡ɛtʲ].Zero-dimensional vowel systems, with one phonemic vowel only, have been postulated for Nuxálk, Kabardian and some Abkhaz dialects, as well as several Central Chadic languages such as Moloko. A phonological analysis with no phonemic vowels at all has been shown to be possible for Mofu-Gudur.Vertical vowel systems, invariably contrasting only in vowel height, have been noted for the following languages: Northwest Caucasian family Abkhaz (two degrees) Adyghe (three degrees) Kabardian (two, perhaps three degrees) Ubykh (two, perhaps three degrees) Caddoan family Wichita (three degrees) Australian Aboriginal languages Arrernte (two degrees) Austronesian languages Marshallese (four, now perhaps three degrees) Sepik–Ramu languages Goidelic languages Irish (three degrees for short vowels only) Sinitic languages Standard Chinese (two degrees, according to some analyses)Kazakh, Mongolian and Tundra Nenets have vowel systems resembling a vertical vowel system in that backness is not phonemic; however, they are not one-dimensional. Backness has in Kazakh and Mongolian been reinterpreted as advanced tongue root, while in Tundra Nenets backness is determined according to the palatalization of adjacent consonants. Vowels are otherwise distinguished, in addition to height, by diphthongization and, in Kazakh and Tundra Nenets, rounding.".
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- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Abkhaz_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Advanced_and_retracted_tongue_root.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Adyghe_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Approximant_consonant.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Aboriginal_languages.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Austronesian_languages.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Back_vowel.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Biu–Mandara_languages.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Buwal_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Caddoan_languages.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Category:Phonology.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Category:Vowels.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Close-mid_vowel.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Close_vowel.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Cuvok_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Daba_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Front_vowel.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Gidar_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Goidelic_languages.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Hina_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Irish_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Irish_phonology.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Kabardian_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Kazakh_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Labialization.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Leiden_University.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Mada_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Mafa_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Margi_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Marshallese_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Mbara_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Mbudum_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Mbuko_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Merey_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Mofu-Gudur_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Moloko_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Mongolian_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Morpheme.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Muskum_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Muyang_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Northwest_Caucasian_languages.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Nuxalk_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Open-mid_vowel.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Open_vowel.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Palatalization_(phonetics).
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Parkwa_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Pawnee_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Roundedness.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Segment_(linguistics).
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Sepik–Ramu_languages.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Sinitic_languages.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Standard_Chinese_phonology.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Tundra_Nenets_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Ubykh_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Underspecification.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Upper_Arrernte_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Vame_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Vowel.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Vowel_harmony.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Vowel_length.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Wichita_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Word.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Wuzlam_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Zulgo-Gemzek_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLink Ɗugwor_language.
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLinkText "Vertical vowel system".
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLinkText "vertical vowel system".
- Vertical_vowel_system wikiPageWikiLinkText "vertical".
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- Vertical_vowel_system subject Category:Phonology.
- Vertical_vowel_system subject Category:Vowels.
- Vertical_vowel_system hypernym System.
- Vertical_vowel_system type Phonetic.
- Vertical_vowel_system comment "A vertical vowel system is the system of vowels in a language that requires only vowel height to phonemically distinguish vowels. Theoretically, rounding, frontness and backness could also be used in one-dimensional vowel systems; however, vertical refers specifically to the usage of vowel height as the sole distinguishing feature.Two different diachronic mechanisms may give rise to a vertical vowel system. In some cases, the front-back distinction may simply be lost when vowels are merged.".
- Vertical_vowel_system label "Vertical vowel system".
- Vertical_vowel_system sameAs Q7922862.
- Vertical_vowel_system sameAs Reizhiad_vogalennek_a-serzh.
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- Vertical_vowel_system sameAs Q7922862.
- Vertical_vowel_system wasDerivedFrom Vertical_vowel_system?oldid=694946744.
- Vertical_vowel_system isPrimaryTopicOf Vertical_vowel_system.