“ETYMOLOGY’ –>
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(in ‘phonetics’, a vowel is a ‘sound’ in ‘spoken language’, with ‘2 complementary definitions’)
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#1
*THE PHONETIC DEFINITION*
(in this definition, a ‘vowel’ is a ‘sound’ pronounced with an ‘open vocal tract’, so that the ‘tongue’ does not touch the (‘lips’ / ‘teeth’ / ‘roof’) of the mouth, such as the english “ah” /ɑː/ or “oh” /oʊ/)
(there is no build-up of ‘air pressure’ at any point above the ‘glottis’)
(this contrasts with ‘consonants’, such as the english “sh” [ʃ], which have a ‘constriction’ (or ‘closure’) at some point along the ‘vocal tract’)
‘ini’
‘has’
‘ood’
‘clae’
‘days’
‘zin’
(‘markham’ / ‘padua’ / ‘devon’)
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#2
*PHONOLOGICAL DEFINITION*
(in the other (‘phonological’) definition, a ‘vowel’ is defined as ‘syllabic’, the sound that forms the ‘peak’ of a ‘syllable’)
(a ‘phonetically equivalent’ (but ‘non-syllabic’) sound is a ‘semi-vowel’)
(in ‘oral languages’, ‘phonetic vowels’ normally form the ‘peak’ (or ‘nucleus’) of many (to ‘all’) syllables, whereas ‘consonants’ form the ‘onset’ and (in languages that have them) ‘coda’)
(some languages allow other sounds to form the ‘nucleus’ of a ‘syllable’, such as the ‘syllabic’ (i.e., vocalic) l in the English word table [ˈtʰeɪb.l̩] (when not considered to have a ‘weak vowel’ sound: [ˈtʰeɪb.əl]) or the syllabic r in the serbo-croatian word vrt [vr̩t] “garden”)
(the word vowel comes from the latin word vocalis, meaning “vocal” (i.e. relating to the voice))
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(in ‘english’, the word vowel is commonly used to mean both ‘vowel sounds’ + the ‘written symbols’ that represent them)
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