Close-mid front unrounded vowel
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| Vowels | |||||
| front | near-front | central | near-back | back | |
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| close | • | • | • | ||
| near-close | • | ||||
| close-mid | • | • | • | ||
| mid | |||||
| open-mid | • | • | • | ||
| near-open | |||||
| open | • | • | |||
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The close-mid front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is e.
Features
- Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.
- Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
- Its vowel roundedness is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurs in
- English: (AuE) bet and hair ; (NZE) bet
- In RP and GA, this vowel occurs only as the first part of the diphthong , as in late , play .
- In Canadian English, this vowel may occur alone in words like bait during rapid speech.
- French: beauté , 'beauty'
- German: Seele , 'soul'
- Hungarian: hét , 'week, seven'
- Spanish: bebé , 'baby'ko:전설 비원순 중고모음