Mid front rounded vowel
Mid front rounded vowel | |
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ø̞ | |
œ̝ | |
IPA number | 310 430 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) |
ø̞ |
Unicode (hex) | U+00F8 U+031E |
X-SAMPA |
2_o or 9_r |
Braille |
The mid front rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically it is a mid front-central rounded vowel.[1]
Although there is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the "exact" mid front rounded vowel between close-mid [ø] and open-mid [œ], ⟨ø⟩ is generally used. If precision is desired, diacritics can be used, such as ⟨ø̞⟩ or ⟨œ̝⟩.
Mid front compressed vowel
The mid front compressed vowel is typically transcribed in IPA simply as ⟨ø̞⟩ or ⟨œ̝⟩. This article uses the first symbol for simplicity. There is no dedicated diacritic for compression in the IPA. However, the compression of the lips can be shown with the letter ⟨β̞⟩ as ⟨e̞͡β̞⟩ / ⟨ɛ̝͡β̞⟩ (simultaneous [e̞] / [ɛ̝] and labial compression) or ⟨e̞ᵝ⟩ / ⟨ɛ̝ᵝ⟩ ([e̞] / [ɛ̝] modified with labial compression). The spread-lip diacritic ⟨ ͍ ⟩ may also be used with a rounded vowel letters ⟨ø͍˕⟩ / ⟨œ͍˔⟩ as an ad hoc symbol, though technically 'spread' means unrounded.
Features
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- Its vowel height is mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel and an open vowel.
- Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Note that rounded front vowels are often centralized, which means that often they are in fact near-front.
- Its roundedness is compressed, which means that the margins of the lips are tense and drawn together in such a way that the inner surfaces are not exposed.
Occurrence
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Bavarian | Amstetten dialect[2] | Near-front.[2] | |||
Catalan | Northern[3] | fulles | [ˈfø̞jəs] | 'leaves' | Found in Occitan and French loanwords and interferences. See Catalan phonology |
Danish | Standard[4][5] | høne | [ˈhø̞̈ːnə] | 'hen' | Near-front.[4][5] Most often, it is transcribed in IPA with ⟨œː⟩. See Danish phonology |
Dutch | Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[6] | mùl | [mø̞̈ɫ] | 'well' | Near-front;[6] typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨œ⟩. See Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect phonology |
Southern[7] | mul | 'dry' | Near-front;[7] typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʏ⟩ or, more rarely, with ⟨ʉ⟩, ⟨ɵ⟩ or ⟨œ⟩. It corresponds to [ø̠][8][9] (also described as [ɵ][10] and [ʊ̈])[11] in Standard Dutch. See Dutch phonology | ||
English | Broad South African[12] | bird | [bø̞̈ːd] | 'bird' | Near-front; may be close-mid [ø̠ː] instead. Realized as mid central unrounded [əː] in the Cultivated variety.[12] See English phonology |
General South African[12] | |||||
New Zealand[13] | Near-front.[13] May be [ɵ̟ː] or [œ̈ː] instead. See English phonology | ||||
Southeastern Welsh[14][15] | Near-front.[14][15][16] | ||||
West Midlands[16] | |||||
Estonian[17] | köök | [kø̞̈ːk] | 'kitchen' | Near-front.[17] See Estonian phonology | |
Finnish[18][19] | rölli | [ˈrø̞̈lːi] | 'Common bent' | Near-front.[19] See Finnish phonology | |
German | Standard[20] | schön | [ʃø̞̈ːn] | 'beautiful' | Near-front;[20] also described as close-mid [ø̈ː].[21][22] See German phonology |
Bernese dialect[23] | Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨œ⟩. See Bernese German phonology | ||||
Hungarian[24] | öl | [ø̞̈l] | 'kill' | Near-front.[24] See Hungarian phonology | |
Korean[25] | 쇠 soe | [sø̞̈ː] | 'iron' | Near-front;[25] Typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ø⟩. Diphthongized to [we] in modern standard Korean. See Korean phonology | |
Limburgish | Maastrichtian[26] | bös | [bø̞̈s] | 'bus' | Near-front; typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨œ⟩.[26] |
Weert dialect[27] | bluts | [blø̞̈ts] | 'bump' | Near-front; typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨ʏ⟩.[27] | |
Romanian | bleu | [blø̞] | 'light blue' | Found only in loanwords. See Romanian phonology | |
Slovak | Standard[28] | Göteborg | [ˈjø̞t̻e̞bo̞rk] | 'Gothenburg' | Only in loanwords; may be closer to [e̞] or [o̞] instead. Reported only by one source from 1988.[28] See Slovak phonology |
Turkish[29][30] | göz | [ɟø̞̈z̪] | 'eye' | Near-front;[29] may be transcribed in IPA with ⟨œ⟩. See Turkish phonology | |
Võro |
Mid front protruded vowel
Mid front protruded vowel | |
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ø̫˕ | |
œ̫˔ | |
ø̞ʷ | |
œ̝ʷ | |
e̞ʷ | |
ɛ̝ʷ |
Catford notes that most languages with rounded front and back vowels use distinct types of labialization, protruded back vowels and compressed front vowels. However, a few languages, such as Scandinavian ones, have protruded front vowels. One of these, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close near-front rounded vowel, with Swedish examples of both types of rounding).
As there are no diacritics in the IPA to distinguish protruded and compressed rounding, ⟨ø̞ʷ⟩ (a mid front rounded vowel modified by endolabialization) will be used here as an ad hoc symbol for protruded mid front vowels.
Acoustically, this sound is "between" the more typical compressed mid front vowel [ø̞] and the unrounded mid front vowel [e̞].
Features
- Its vowel height is mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel and an open vowel.
- Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Note that rounded front vowels are often centralized, which means that often they are in fact near-front.
- Its roundedness is protruded, which means that the corners of the lips are drawn together, and the inner surfaces exposed.
Occurrence
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Norwegian | Standard Eastern[31] | søt | [sø̞ʷːt̻] | 'sweet' | Near-front;[31] typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨øː⟩. Also described as ranging from mid near-front [ø̽ː] to open-mid near-front [œ̠ː],[32] close-mid near-front [ø̠ː][33] and close-mid central [ɵː].[34] See Norwegian phonology |
Swedish | Central Standard[35][36] | nött | [n̪ø̞ʷt̪ː] | 'worn' (past part. s.) | Near-front,[35] typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨œ⟩. See Swedish phonology |
References
- ↑ Geoff Lindsey (2013) The vowel space, Speech Talk
- 1 2 Traunmüller (1982), cited in Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:290)
- ↑ Recasens (1996), pp. 80–81.
- 1 2 Grønnum (1998), p. 100.
- 1 2 Ladefoged & Johnson (2010), p. 227.
- 1 2 Peters (2010), p. 241.
- 1 2 Collins & Mees (2003), p. 131.
- ↑ Collins & Mees (2003), p. 128.
- ↑ Gussenhoven (1992), p. 47.
- ↑ Rietveld & Van Heuven (2009), p. 68.
- ↑ Verhoeven (2005), p. 245.
- 1 2 3 Lass (2002), p. 116.
- 1 2 Roca & Johnson (1999), p. 188.
- 1 2 Coupland (1990), p. 95.
- 1 2 Wells (1982), p. 381.
- 1 2 Collins & Mees (2003), p. 299.
- 1 2 Asu & Teras (2009), p. 368.
- ↑ Iivonen & Harnud (2005), pp. 60, 66.
- 1 2 Suomi, Toivanen & Ylitalo (2008), p. 21.
- 1 2 Mangold (2005), p. 37.
- ↑ Kohler (1999), p. 87.
- ↑ Lodge (2009), p. 87.
- ↑ Marti (1985), p. ?.
- 1 2 Szende (1994), p. 92.
- 1 2 Lee (1999), p. 121.
- 1 2 Gussenhoven & Aarts (1999), p. 159.
- 1 2 Heijmans & Gussenhoven (1998), p. 110.
- 1 2 Kráľ (1988), p. 64.
- 1 2 Zimmer & Orgun (1999), p. 155.
- ↑ Göksel & Kerslake (2005), p. 11.
- 1 2 Popperwell (2010), pp. 16, 35.
- ↑ Strandskogen (1979), p. 23.
- ↑ Vanvik (1979), pp. 13, 20.
- ↑ Kristoffersen (2000), pp. 16–17, 33–35, 37, 343.
- 1 2 Engstrand (1999), p. 140.
- ↑ Elmquist (1915), p. 33.
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