backness
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backness (uncountable)
- (phonetics) Quality of being a back vowel.
- Antonym: frontness
- 1996, Andrew Spencer, Phonology: theory and description, page 25:
- The most important aspects of vowel quality are tongue height, frontness/backness and lip rounding.
- (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the horizontal position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth (front, near-front, central, near-back, or back).
- Synonym: frontness
- Coordinate terms: (vertical dimension) height, (lip articulation) roundedness, length, nasalization, reduction
Translations edit
a quality of vowels: the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth
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