Sentence examples for tongue height from inspiring English sources

But the Chomsky–Halle feature system does not permit the specification within underlying forms of central vowels, nor of more than three degrees of tongue height.

The frequency of F1 is inversely related to tongue height, and the frequency of F2 is related to tongue advancement.

For instance, tongue height can presumably be defined on the basis of a cut-off criterion for the first formants' frequency.

More simple phonological features, such as place of articulation and tongue height are highly correlated with changes in formant frequencies F1 and F2 [ 29] and can accordingly be handled by automatic speech recognition [ 8].

For the present study, data regarding age, sex, education (as proxy for SES), religion, mother tongue, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and details on tobacco use were abstracted from the baseline data [ 11- 14].

In the right panel, which corresponds to the declining period, the poleward boundary of the torch or tongue shape decreases in height and bends eastward with time.

Ensure that the trailer tongue is the same height as the hitching ball.

The height of the tongue for the vowels in the other words is between these two extremes, and they are therefore called midvowels.

Third, the width of the pharynx varies considerably, and to some extent independently of the height of the tongue, in different vowels.

Primary articulation refers to either (1) the place and manner in which the stricture is made for a consonant or (2) the tongue contour, lip shape, and height of the larynx used to produce a vowel.

Second, although the height of the tongue in front vowels varies by approximately equal amounts for what are called equidistant steps in vowel quality, this is just not factually true in descriptions of back vowels.