Sentence examples for tongue position from inspiring English sources

Thus, words tend to consist of syllables produced with either a back or a front tongue position.

There is, however, a good inverse correlation between one of the labels used to describe the tongue position and the frequency of the first, or lowest, formant.

Cardinal vowel number one is defined as the highest and farthest front tongue position that can be made without producing a fricative sound; cardinal vowel number five is defined as the lowest and farthest back vowel.

"Give me a clue," he says when we play Twenty Questions, emphasizing that recent addition to his vocabulary and stressing the "l," which requires a tongue position difficult for Japanese.

Thus French has a contrast between a high front unrounded vowel in vie, "life," and a high front rounded vowel with a very similar tongue position in vu, "seen," as well as a high back rounded vowel in vous, "you".

In addition, before the release of [p], the tongue position for [j] is already in place.

WITH talk of diphthongs and tongue positions, a dialogue session with Stephen Gabis comes across like speech therapy.

French distinguishes between several nasalized vowels and vowels made with similar tongue positions but with the soft palate raised.

Comparison with Figure 2 shows that there are no simple relationships between actual tongue positions and formant frequencies.

But these three features can be combined to specify only six basic tongue positions: high front, high back, midfront, midback, low front, and low back.

Because of the difficulty of observing the precise tongue positions that occur in vowels, a set of eight vowels known as the cardinal vowels has been devised to act as reference points.