Related Term(s):

• close vowel

Synonym(s):

• close-mid vowel
• high mid vowel
• upper-mid vowel

Source(s):

TRASK 1996171
COLLINGE 199020
HARTMANN & STORK 1972102 (half close vowel)
FINCH 200058
RICHARDS etal. 1992403
MacKay 1989241
MATTHEWS 1997156
ELL5129

• TRASK, R. L. (1996) A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology. London: Routledge. 
• COLLINGE, N. E. (1990) An Encyclopaedia of Language. London: Routledge.
• HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.
• FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.
• MACKAY, Ian. (1989) Phonetics and Speech Science. A Bilingual Dictionary. Dictionnaire Bilingue de la Phonétique et des Sciences de la Parole. New York/Bern: Peter Lang.
• MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Phonology