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Vowel sound represented by ??? in IPA
The
open-mid back unrounded vowel
or
low-mid back unrounded vowel
[1]
is a type of
vowel
sound, used in some
spoken
languages
. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
that represents this sound is ⟨
?
⟩, graphically a rotated lowercase "v" (called a
turned V
but created as a small-capital
⟨?⟩
without the crossbar, even though some vendors display it as a real turned
v
). Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as a "wedge", "
caret
" or "hat". In transcriptions for
English
, this symbol is commonly used for the
near-open central unrounded vowel
and in transcriptions for
Danish
, it is used for the
open back rounded vowel
.
Features
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Occurrence
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Language
|
Word
|
IPA
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Meaning
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Notes
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Ajie
[2]
|
k
e
|
[
k??
]
|
'pot'
|
Distinct from
/?/
|
Catalan
|
Solsones
[3]
|
tard
a
|
[?ta?ð???ː]
|
'afternoon'
|
Realization of final unstressed
/?/
|
Emilian
|
most Emilian dialects
[4]
|
Bul
a
ggna
|
[bu?l??ː?]
|
'
Bologna
'
|
It corresponds to a sound between
/?/
to
/a/
; written
o
in some spellings
|
English
|
Cape Town
|
l
o
t
|
[l?t]
|
'lot'
|
It corresponds to a weakly rounded
[
??
]
in all other South African dialects. See
South African English phonology
|
Natal
|
Cardiff
|
th
ough
t
|
[θ?ːt]
|
'thought'
|
For some speakers it may be rounded and closer. See
English phonology
|
General
South African
|
n
o
|
[n?ː]
|
'no'
|
May be a diphthong
[???]
instead.
See
South African English phonology
|
General American
|
g
u
t
|
[??t]
ⓘ
|
'gut'
|
In some dialects, fronted to
[
?
]
, or fronted and lowered to
[
?
]
. In Standard Southern British English,
[?]
is increasingly heard in place of
[
?
]
to avoid the
trap-strut merger
.
See
English phonology
and
Northern Cities Vowel Shift
|
Inland Northern American
[11]
|
Multicultural London
|
Newfoundland
|
Northern
East Anglian
|
Philadelphia
|
Scottish
|
Some
Estuary English
speakers
|
Some Standard Southern
British
speakers
|
French
|
Picardy
[18]
|
al
o
rs
|
[a?l???]
|
'so'
|
Corresponding to
/?/
in
standard French
.
|
German
|
Chemnitz dialect
|
m
a
chen
|
[?m?χ??]
|
'to do'
|
Allophone of
/?,
?ː/
(which phonetically are central
[
?
,
?ː
]
)
before and after
/ŋ,
k?,
k,
χ,
?/
. Exact backness varies; it is most posterior before
/χ,
?/
.
|
Haida
|
?w
a
aay
|
[q????aːj]
|
'the rock'
|
Allophone of
/a/
(sometimes also
/aː/
) after uvular and epiglottal consonants.
|
Irish
|
Ulster dialect
|
o
la
|
[?l???]
|
'oil'
|
See
Irish phonology
|
Kaingang
|
[???]
|
'mark'
|
Varies between back
[?]
and central
[
?
]
.
|
Kashmiri
|
??
|
[?z]
|
'today'
|
Allophone of [
?
]. Used only in monosyllables. Typical of the
Srinagar
variety.
|
Kensiu
|
[h??]
|
'stream'
|
|
Korean
|
너
/
n
eo
|
[n??]
|
'you'
|
See
Korean phonology
|
Lillooet
|
[
example needed
]
|
|
|
Retracted counterpart of
/?/
.
|
Mah Meri
|
[
example needed
]
|
|
|
Allophone of
/?/
; can be mid central
[
?
]
or close-mid back
[
?
]
instead.
|
Nepali
|
???/
a
s
a
l
|
[?s?l]
|
'good'
|
See
Nepali phonology
|
Portuguese
|
Greater Lisbon area
|
l
e
ite
|
[????jt???]
|
'milk'
|
Allophone of
/?/
before
/i/
(forming a phonetic diphthong
[?j]
). Corresponds to
[
e
]
in other accents.
See
Portuguese phonology
|
Russian
|
Standard
Saint Petersburg
|
гол
о
ва
/golova
|
[??????va]
|
'head'
|
Corresponds to
[
?
]
in standard
Moscow
pronunciation;
occurs mostly immediately before stressed syllables. See
Russian phonology
|
Tamil
|
[
example needed
]
|
|
|
Nasalized. Phonetic realization of the sequence
/am/
, may be
[
o
]
or
[
a
]
instead.
See
Tamil phonology
|
Xavante
|
|
[j?m]
|
'seed'
|
The nasal version
[??]
also occurs.
|
Before
World War II
, the
/?/
of
Received Pronunciation
was phonetically close to a back vowel
[?]
, which has since shifted forward towards
[
?
]
(a near-open central unrounded vowel).
Daniel Jones
reported his speech (southern British) as having an advanced back vowel
[??]
between his central
/?/
and back
/?/
; however, he also reported that other southern speakers had a lower and even more advanced vowel that approached cardinal
[
a
]
.
In
American English
varieties, such as in the West, the Midwest, and the urban South, the typical phonetic realization of the phoneme
/?/
is an open-mid central
[
?
]
.
Truly backed variants of
/?/
that are phonetically
[?]
can occur in
Inland Northern American English
, Newfoundland English,
Philadelphia English
, some of
African-American English
, and (old-fashioned) white
Southern American English
in coastal plain and Piedmont areas.
However, the letter ⟨
?
⟩ is still commonly used to indicate this phoneme, even in the more common varieties with central variants
[
?
]
or
[
?
]
. That may be because of both tradition and some other dialects retaining the older pronunciation.
Notes
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References
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.
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.
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.
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.
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