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Close-mid front unrounded vowel [e]
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The close-mid front unrounded vowel [e] is a vowel phone.[1] It is a cardinal vowel.
Features[edit | edit source]
The close-mid front unrounded vowel the following features:
- Vowel height: It’s a close-mid vowel (also known as high-mid) which means the tongue is positioned halfway between a close vowel (a high vowel) and a mid vowel.
- Vowel backness: It’s front vowel, which means the tongue is positioned forward in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant sound.
- Vowel roundedness: It’s an unrounded vowel, which means that the lips are not rounded.
Occurrence in English[edit | edit source]
In RP, this is used for the ᴅʀᴇꜱꜱ vowel phoneme. It’s also used in the diphthong for the ꜰᴀᴄᴇ vowel phoneme, and the ꜱǫᴜᴀʀᴇ vowel phoneme.
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the close-mid front unrounded vowel is represented by a lowercase E, ⟨e⟩, as its IPA symbol. This has an IPA number of 302. In IPA Braille, the character is Braille pattern dots-15, ⠑.
