Close-mid front rounded vowel

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Close-mid front rounded vowel
ø
IPA Number 310
Encoding
Entity (decimal) ø
Unicode (hex) U+00F8
X-SAMPA 2
Braille ⠳ (braille pattern dots-1256)

The close-mid front rounded vowel, or high-mid front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically it is a close-mid front-central rounded vowel.[1] The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ø⟩, a lowercase letter o with a diagonal stroke through it, derived from the Danish, Norwegian and Faroese alphabets which use the letter to represent this sound. The symbol is commonly referred to as "o, slash" in English.

The IPA prefers terms "close" and "open" for vowels, and the name of the article follows this. However, a large number of linguists,[who?] perhaps a majority,[citation needed] prefer the terms "high" and "low".

Close-mid front compressed vowel

Features

IPA vowel chart
Front Near-​front Central Near-​back Back
Close
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Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
Paired vowels are: unrounded • rounded
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  • Its vowel height is close-mid, also known as high-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel (a high vowel) and a mid vowel.
  • Its vowel backness is front, which means the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant. Note that rounded front vowels are often centralized, which means that often they are in fact near-front.
  • Its roundedness is compressed, which means that the margins of the lips are tense and drawn together in such a way that the inner surfaces are not exposed.

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Afrikaans Standard[2] reus [røs] 'giant' Very rare realization of /eø/.[3] See Afrikaans phonology
Bavarian Amstetten dialect[4] [example needed] Near-front.[4]
Chinese Wu 最/tzeu [tsøː] 'most'
Danish Standard[5][6][7][8][9] købe [ˈkʰø̠ːb̥ə] 'buy' Near-front.[5][6][7][8][9] See Danish phonology
Dutch Northeastern neus [nøːs] 'nose' Dialects of provinces Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and Gelderland.
English Broad South African[10] bird [bø̠ːd] 'bird' Near-front.[10][11] May be lower [ø̞̈ː] in South Africa.[10] In Cultivated South African English, it is realized as [əː].[10] See English phonology
General South African[10]
Tyneside[11]
Faroese øl [øːl] 'beer'
French[12] peu [pø] 'few' See French phonology
Franco-Provençal filye [ˈføʎə] 'daughter'
German Standard[13][14] schön About this sound [ʃø̠ːn] (help·info) 'beautiful' Near-front;[13][14] also described as mid [ø̞̈].[15] See German phonology
Hungarian[16] nő [nø̠ː] 'woman' Near-front.[16] See Hungarian phonology
Limburgish Most dialects[17][18][19] beuk [bø̠ːk] 'books' Near-front.[17][18][19] The example word is from the Maastrichtian dialect.
Rural Weerts[20] keuke [ˈkøːkə] 'kitchen' Corresponds to /yə/ in the city dialect. The vowel transcribed /øː/ in the city dialect is actually a centering diphthong /øə/.[21]
Lombard Western coeur [køːr] 'heart' Also written ⟨ö⟩, particularly in Switzerland and Italy.
Luxembourgish[22][23] blöd [bløːt] 'stupid' Occurs only in loanwords.[22][23] See Luxembourgish phonology
Ngwe Mmockngie dialect [nøɣə̀] 'sun'
Norwegian Standard Eastern[24] søt [sø̠ːt̪] 'sweet' Near-front.[24] See Norwegian phonology
Portuguese Micaelense[25] boi [ˈbø] 'ox' Allophone of /o/. See Portuguese phonology
Some European speakers[26] dou [ˈd̪øw] 'I give'
Rotuman mösʻạki [møːsʔɔki] 'to put to bed'
West Frisian Hindeloopers[27] beuch [bøːx] [translation needed] Diphthongized to [øʏ] in Standard West Frisian.[27] See West Frisian phonology
Standard[28] put [pøt] 'well' Also described as central [ɵ];[29] typically transcribed as /ø/ or /ʏ/. See West Frisian phonology

Vowel transcribed /øː/ in Belgian Dutch is in fact mid central [ɵ̞ː].[30]

Close-mid front protruded vowel

Close-mid front protruded vowel
ø̫
øʷ
eʷ

Catford notes that most languages with rounded front and back vowels use distinct types of labialization, protruded back vowels and compressed front vowels. However, a few languages, such as Scandinavian ones, have protruded front vowels. One of these, Swedish, even contrasts the two types of rounding in front vowels (see near-close near-front rounded vowel, with Swedish examples of both types of rounding).

As there are no diacritics in the IPA to distinguish protruded and compressed rounding, an old diacritic for labialization, ⟨  ̫⟩, will be used here as an ad hoc symbol for protruded front vowels. Another possible transcription is ⟨øʷ⟩ or ⟨eʷ⟩ (a close-mid front vowel modified by endolabialization), but this could be misread as a diphthong.

Features

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Swedish Central Standard[31] öl About this sound [ø̫ːl̪] (help·info) 'beer' May be diphthongized to [øə̯]. See Swedish phonology

See also

References

  1. ↑ Geoff Lindsey (2013) The vowel space, Speech Talk
  2. ↑ Lass (1987), p. 119.
  3. ↑ Lass (1987), p. 117.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Traunmüller (1982), cited in Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996:290)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Grønnum (1998), p. 100.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Grønnum (2005), p. 268.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Grønnum (2003).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Allan, Holmes & Lundskær-Nielsen (2000), p. 17.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ladefoged & Johnson (2010), p. 227.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Lass (2002), p. 116.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Watt & Allen (2003), pp. 268–269.
  12. ↑ Fougeron & Smith (1993), p. 73.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Kohler (1999), p. 87.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Lodge (2009), p. 87.
  15. ↑ Mangold (2005), p. 37.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Szende (1994), p. 92.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Gussenhoven & Aarts (1999), p. 159.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Peters (2006), p. 119.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Verhoeven (2007), p. 221.
  20. ↑ Heijmans & Gussenhoven (1998), p. 107.
  21. ↑ Heijmans & Gussenhoven (1998), pp. 107, 109.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Trouvain & Gilles (2009), p. 75.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Gilles & Trouvain (2013), p. 72.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Vanvik (1979), p. 13.
  25. ↑ Variação Linguística no Português Europeu: O Caso do Português dos Açores (Portuguese)
  26. ↑ Lista das marcas dialetais e ouros fenómenos de variação (fonética e fonológica) identificados nas amostras do Arquivo Dialetal do CLUP (Portuguese)
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 van der Veen (2001), p. 102.
  28. ↑ Tiersma (1999), p. 10.
  29. ↑ Sipma (1913), p. 10.
  30. ↑ Verhoeven (2005:245)
  31. ↑ Engstrand (1999), pp. 140-141.

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