Close-mid vowel explained

pronounced as /vowels/pronounced as /notice/

A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The defining characteristic of a close-mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned one third of the way from a close vowel to an open vowel.^[1]

Partial list

The close-mid vowels that have dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

• close-mid front unrounded vowel pronounced as /[e]/
• close-mid front rounded vowel pronounced as /[ø]/
• close-mid central unrounded vowel pronounced as /[ɘ]/ (older publications may use (IPA|ë))
• close-mid central rounded vowel pronounced as /[ɵ]/ (older publications may use (IPA|ö))
• close-mid back unrounded vowel pronounced as /[ɤ]/
• close-mid back rounded vowel pronounced as /[o]/

Other close-mid vowels can be indicated with diacritics of relative articulation applied to letters for neighboring vowels.

References

pronounced as /navigation/

Notes and References

1. Tamzida . Aleeya . Siddiqui . Sharmin . 2011 . A synchronic comparison between the vowel phonemes of Bengali & English phonology and its classroom applicability . Stamford Journal of English . en . 6 . 285–314 . 10.3329/sje.v6i0.13919. free. 2408-8838.