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The open-mid back unrounded vowel is a type of Vowel sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is V. The IPA symbol is an inverted letter ''v'' and both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as either a wedge, a carrot, or a hat. FEATURES
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Before World War II , Received Pronunciation had as a phoneme; this sound has since shifted forward to . Despite this change, the symbol is still used (Roca & Johnson 135). This may be due to both tradition as well as the fact that other dialects retain the older pronunciation. REFERENCE |
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