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half-close vowel

[Subentry of half(-)close, vowel₁]

Fr    voyelle mi-fermée

Synonym(s): close-mid vowel, high mid vowel, upper-mid vowel

Related term(s): close vowel

Domain: Phonology

Source(s):

Collinge 1990: 20

COLLINGE, N. E. (1990) An Encyclopaedia of Language. London: Routledge.

ELL: 5129

The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Finch 2000: 58

FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Hartmann & Stork 1972: 102 (half close vowel)

HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

MacKay 1989: 241

MACKAY, Ian. (1989) Phonetics and Speech Science. A Bilingual Dictionary. Dictionnaire Bilingue de la Phonétique et des Sciences de la Parole. New York/Bern: Peter Lang. (PH)

Matthews 1997: 156

MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Matthews 1997: 156

MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Richards etal. 1992: 403

RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.

Trask 1996: 171

TRASK, R. L. (1996) A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology. London: Routledge.  (PH)

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