Visualizing English and Japanese vowels

Vowel sounds can be visualized in a two-dimensional space according to tongue position. The vertical axis is runs from open down to closed, and the horizontal runs from front to back. See a linguistics textbook for far more detail. English has five vowel letters, but a lot more than five vowel sounds. Scholars argue about […] The post Visualizing English and Japanese vowels first appeared on John D. Cook....

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