plural of vowel harmony

(phonetics) Any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels, related to changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word, and which are perceived as "weakening".

plural of vowel reduction

(linguistic morphology, Indo-European studies) A vowel appended to the end of a root (with which it constitutes a stem), before the ending.

plural of dark vowel

(phonetics) Synonym of back vowel

(linguistics) In an abugida, the vowel sound (often a schwa in Brahmic scripts) appended by default to a consonant symbol lacking a vowel diacritic.

(phonetics) A vowel that is produced without nasalization.

plural of thematic vowel

plural of prop vowel