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Re: vowels and consonants

From:David Peterson <thatbluecat@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 6:37
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Vowels have these main main characteristics: frontness, rounding, and height?
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Also ATR--advanced tongue root. So, [e] is [+ATR] and [E] is [-ATR]. Sometimes this distinction is considered more important than the fact that [e] is higher than [E]. -David