Near-close vowel
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right
represents a rounded vowel.
represents a rounded vowel.
A near-close vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a close vowel is that the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted. Near-close vowels sometimes described as lax variants of the fully-close vowels. The near-close vowels identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
- near-close near-front unrounded vowel [ɪ]
- near-close near-front rounded vowel [ʏ]
- near-close near-back rounded vowel [ʊ]
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