Entertainment / Literature / Rounded Vowel: A vowel made with the lips sticking out--i.e., all of the back vowels except [a].
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Entertainment / Literature / Spread Vowel: Also called an unrounded vowel, in linguistics, a vowel made with the corners of the lips retracted so the lips are against the teeth. See unrounding. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Rounded Vowel: A vowel made with the lips sticking out--i.e., all of the back vowels except [a]. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Rounded Binary: Compositional form with two sections, in which the second ends with a return to material from the first: each section is usually repeated. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Semivowel: A sound articulated in the same way as a vowel sound, but which functions like a consonant typically. Examples include [w] and [y]. In some languages such as Welsh, these can function as graphemes for MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Short Vowel: As Algeo defines it, 'A vowel of lesser duration than a corresponding long vowel' (329). MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Tense Vowel: Any vowel made with the tongue muscles relatively more tense than in a lax vowel. These tense vowels tend to be less central and pronounced higher in the oral cavity than lax vowels. Examples include MORE