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Meaning of "oral vowel" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ORAL VOWEL

oral vowel  [ˈɔːrəl ˈvaʊəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORAL VOWEL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oral vowel is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORAL VOWEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nasal vowel

A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the velum so that air escapes both through nose as well as the mouth. By contrast, oral vowels are vowels without this nasalization. As explained below, nasal vowels that are distinctive or obligatory are of far more linguistic importance than whether or not speakers of a language tend to redundantly nasalize vowels in some instances. Relatively similar languages in the same branch of a language family differ on this point quite frequently throughout the world. In most languages, vowels that are adjacent to nasal consonants are produced partially or fully with a lowered velum in a natural process of assimilation and are therefore technically nasal, though few speakers would notice. This is the case in English: vowels preceding nasal consonants are nasalized, but there is no phonemic distinction between nasal and oral vowels. However, the word "huh" is generally pronounced with a nasal vowel. In French and Portuguese, by contrast, nasal vowels are phonemes distinct from oral vowels, since words that differ mainly in the nasal or oral quality of a vowel exist.

Definition of oral vowel in the English dictionary

The definition of oral vowel in the dictionary is an ordinary vowel that is produced without nasalization.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORAL VOWEL


avowal
əˈvaʊəl
bowel
ˈbaʊəl
cowal
ˈkaʊəl
disavowal
ˌdɪsəˈvaʊəl
disbowel
dɪsˈbaʊəl
disembowel
ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəl
disemvowel
ˌdɪsɪmˈvaʊəl
dishtowel
ˈdɪʃˌtaʊəl
dowel
ˈdaʊəl
Dowell
ˈdaʊəl
embowel
ɪmˈbaʊəl
Powell
ˈpaʊəl
rowel
ˈraʊəl
semivowel
ˈsɛmɪˌvaʊəl
towel
ˈtaʊəl
trowel
ˈtraʊəl
vowel
ˈvaʊəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORAL VOWEL

oral
oral eroticism
oral examiner
oral history
oral hygiene
oral hygienist
Oral Law
oral sex
oral society
oral tradition
oralism
oralist
orality
orally
Oran
orang
orang-outang
orang-utan
orange
orange blossom

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORAL VOWEL

back vowel
bath towel
beach towel
dish towel
front vowel
hand towel
jack towel
low vowel
Nowel
open vowel
paper towel
pure vowel
roller towel
sanitary towel
tea towel
throw in the towel
Turkish towel

Synonyms and antonyms of oral vowel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oral vowel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ORAL VOWEL

Find out the translation of oral vowel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oral vowel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oral vowel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

口腔元音
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vocales orales
570 millions of speakers

English

oral vowel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मौखिक स्वर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حرف العلة عن طريق الفم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

устный гласный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vogal oral,
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৌখিক স্বরবর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voyelle orale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Vokal lisan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

oralen Vokal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

口腔母音
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경구 모음
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vokal lisan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguyên âm bằng miệng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாய்வழி உயிர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मौखिक स्वर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sözlü sesli harf
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vocale orale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samogłoska ustna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

усний гласний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vocală oral
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προφορική φωνήεν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mondelinge vokaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oral vokal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oral vokal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oral vowel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORAL VOWEL»

The term «oral vowel» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.009 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of oral vowel
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ORAL VOWEL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oral vowel» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oral vowel» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oral vowel

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORAL VOWEL»

Discover the use of oral vowel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oral vowel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Unsupervised Neural Pattern Classifiers for Oral Vowel ...
This thesis describes the development of unsupervised neural-based pattern classifiers for the training of vowel pronunciations for students learning a foreign language.
Joseph C. Hecker, 2006
2
Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology
The reverse pattern of asymmetry is attested for Mauritian Creole, which, according to Baker (1972), has the five oral vowel phonemes /i, u, e, o, a/ and the three nasal phonemes /æ, ɔ, ɑ/. All nasal vowels in this case are considered to have ...
Parth Bhatt, Tonjes Veenstra, 2013
3
A Course in English Phonetics
3. The vowel is half-close. 4. The vowel is central. 5. The lips are unrounded. 6. The velic is closed. It is an oral vowel, back 1 . The vowel is long. 2. The vowel is mid. 3. The vowel is half-open. 4. The vowel is front. 5. The lips are unrounded. 6.
Tej R Kansakar, 1998
4
Underlying Representations
When the stimulus contains an oral vowel the majority of words given by the subjects have an oral vowel too, but 13.4 per cent of words given have a nasalized vowel even though there was no nasalization in the stimulus. Similarly, English ...
Martin Krämer, 2012
5
A Grammar of Yoruba
... u, and 5 is slightly higher than 0. Orthographically, a nasal vowel is represented by an oral vowel symbol followed by n, i.e. in, en, on, un. E.g. din 'fry', irin 'iron'; lyen 'that'19 son 'pay', ogb<?n 'wisdom', kun 'be full', odun 'year'. After m and n, ...
Ayo Bamgbose, 2010
6
Portuguese: A Reference Manual
3) Most Portuguese oral diphthongs are sequences of an oral vowel + semivowel ; these sequences are often called "falling" diphthongs since the semivowel follows the vowel. SYM. LETT. EXAMPLES SYM. LETT. EXAMPLES [ai] ai pai ...
Sheila R. Ackerlind, Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, 2012
7
I Am a Linguist: With a Foreword by Peter Matthews
That is, there is a nasal vowel corresponding to four of the oral vowels — for example, bon 'good' has the nasal vowel correspondent of the oral vowel in mort ' death' — but not for the other eight — there is no nasal vowel corresponding to the ...
R.M.W. Dixon, 2010
8
Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From Language to Metrics ...
There are relatively few diphthongs in segment 1: 4 [aI] in English to which might be added the diphthong [ou] in certain varieties of English. In the French corpus it is striking that there is only one case of the rounded front oral vowel [y] (turluru ...
Jean-Louis Aroui, Andy Arleo, 2009
9
Recent Development in Creole Studies
To sum up this section, I have presented cases where regressive nasalization seems to apply, i.e., where an oral vowel preceding a nasal consonant undergoes assimilation and cases where nasalized and non-nasalized forms alternate freely ...
Dany Adone, 2003
10
Universals of Human Language: Phonology
Assuming the validity of universal 14, Greenberg argues that universals 11 and 12 are then simply consequences of the historic origin of NV's. If NV's do indeed develop from earlier sequences of oral vowel + nasal consonant, it follows that the ...
Joseph Harold Greenberg, Charles Albert Ferguson, Edith A. Moravcsik, 1978

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Oral vowel [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/oral-vowel>. May 2024 ».
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