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In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! [??] or oh! [o?], pronounced with an open
vocal tract so that there is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants,
such as English sh! [??], where there is a constriction or closure at some point along the vocal tract. A vowel
is also understood to be syllabic: an equivalent open but non-syllabic sound is called a semivowel.
In all languages, vowels form the nucleus or peak of syllables, whereas consonants form the onset and (in languages
which have them) coda. However, some languages also allow other sounds to form the nucleus of a syllable, such
as the syllabic l in the English word table [?te?.bl?] (the stroke under the l indicates that it is syllabic; the
dot separates syllables), or the r in Serbian vrt [vr?t] "garden".
We might note the conflict between the phonetic definition of 'vowel' (a sound produced with no constriction in
the vocal tract) and the phonological definition (a sound that forms the peak of a syllable).[1] The approximants
[j] and [w] illustrate this conflict: both are produced without much of a constriction in the vocal tract (so phonetically
they seem to be vowel-like), but they occur on the edge of syllables, such as at the beginning of the English words
'yes' and 'wet' (which suggests that phonologically they are consonants). The American linguist Kenneth Pike suggested
the terms 'vocoid' for a phonetic vowel and 'vowel' for a phonological vowel,[2] so using this terminology, [j]
and [w] are classified as vocoids but not vowels.
The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "speaking", because in most languages words
and thus speech are not possible without vowels. Vowel is commonly used to mean both vowel sounds and the written
symbols that represent them.
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and, Would, he, she, her, his, how, does, i, such, my, on, you, where, why, what, does, done, an, be.
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